Monday, January 17, 2005

am I really reading this many books?

What's in my stack of active reading:

A Few Perfect Hours ... and other stories from Southesast Asia and Central Europe, a comic-art travelogue by Josh Neufeld

The Adventures of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, a graphic novel by Chris Ware

Purgatorial, poems by Dale Jensen

What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hip-hop, edited by Gary Gach

In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall's famous account of watching the Chimpanzees at Gombe Stream

The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris

Between the Palms: a collection of Gay Travel Erotica edited by Michael T. Luongo

The Best American Poetry 2004, guest editor Lyn Hejinian

Red Mars, a science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson

Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, vol 1: From Fin-de-Siecle to Negritude, edited by Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre Joris

The New York Trilogy, three short novels by Paul Auster

Plus the book I read in the tiny window of my lunch hour during the week: Thank You and OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan by David Chadwick

There are other books I've started but haven't been reading lately. One or more of the above may actually be in that category (or may soon be). Let's not mention magazines and blogs, newspapers and correspondence.

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