2009 reading | Alexandra Kingsley

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2009 reading

Full-Length Works

Excluding short stories, single issues of comic books, and anything left unfinished.

Carol Shields, Jane Austen
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Naomi Novik, Her Majesty’s Dragon
Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life
Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood
Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter
Jack Pendarvis, Your Body is Changing
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis Vol. 1
Percy Walker, The Moviegoer
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
Alan DeNiro, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness
Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
Joseph Campbell, An Open Life
Karen Armstrong, The Bible: A Biography
Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus
Cecil Castellucci, The Plain Janes
Gareth Hinds, Beowulf: the Graphic Novel
Brian Wood, The New York Four
Elaine Dundy, The Old Man and Me
Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe
D.C. Fontana, Vulcan’s Glory
Warren St. John, Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town
G.G. Fickling, This Girl for Hire
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs
A.J. Hartley, What Time Devours
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Michael Davis, Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
John Green, Paper Towns
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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- “I’m always impressed at how infantile and unreasonable and petulant I can still become with my own editor.” The Telegraph talks to poets who are editors and editors who are poets. (Via.)
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- On Cornwall: "Individual rocks on cliffs come with reviews and some do, in fact, look as if they were rough-hewn by ancient thrill-seekers hell-bent on making an Odeon of the ocean." Turns out Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens is a fine writer.
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- The always excellent Alex Prager (whose work I adored at MOMA last year) has put together a weird and wonderful gallery of cinematic villains for the New York Times.
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- "If Gesualdo had not committed such shocking acts, we might not pay such close attention to his music. But if he had not written such shocking music we would not care so much about his deeds." Alex Ross is excellent as always in this week's New Yorker [subscription required]. Also: Ross's photojournal and a selection of music related to the article.
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- "The problem is that most books about drifters -- your Beats, your bohemians, your nomads -- don’t understand, or really get at, the longing that can come with someone without a permanent address. There are those who carry their homes along on their backs, and everything feels like a big adventure, but that’s not true for everyone. Rootless can sometimes feel homeless." Jessa Crispin uses her library as the basis for an advice column, thereby further proving she's the best friend one wishes one had.
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- This year, Adam Gopnik wrote about turkeys; in years past, they've published a number of Thanksgiving-related fiction pieces, listed here.
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