White Noise: Part Four













I have two bookshelves. Both are so overstuffed, I've taken to
storing books in the kitchen and in the hallway. This shot includ-
es reference books (A Biographical Dictionary of Film, Film Noir
Reader, Placing Movies), books I haven't started (I Put a Spell
on You, King Suckerman, Union Dues), and book I haven't fin-
ished (The Collected Stories of John Cheever, Sirk on Sirk).














This shot includes books I've read (Cruel Shoes, Gone with the
Wind, How the Irish Became White, In the Cut, Monty, Neon
Angel: The Cherie Currie Story, Mystery Train, Please Kill
Me, The Ice Storm, and White Noise). Plus, an assort-
ment of nail polish and fragrances. I don't keep every
book I read, so these are all titles that made some
sort of an impression. Those that don't, go away
(I sell or pass them on). The spine is hard
to read, but the oldest is by A. A. Mil-
ne: The House at Pooh Corner.

Click here for Part Three: The
Complete Book Club List

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Endnote: Images courtesy
Kodak one-time use camera.

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White Noise: The
Complete Book Club
List, Part Three

Here are the titles book club has tackled since 2007. For a history of the club, please click here. For part one of the list (2000-04), click here; for part two (2005-06), click here.*

* The third link is currently inoperable; I'm hoping to find a way to retrieve it.

2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007

02/07: Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
[Winner of the Man Booker Prize]
05/07: Martin Amis - Money: A Suicide Note
07/07: Mike Davis - Dead Cities [I swear I'll finish this...someday]
09/07: Cormac McCarthy - The Road
[Nice lead-in to No Country for Old Men]
11/07: John Nathan - Mish-
ima and/or Legs McNeil & Jennifer Osborne - The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry [I read both]

2008 2008 2008 2008

02/08: Jonathan Lethem - The Fortress of Solitude
05/08: Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
07/08: Max Brooks - World War Z:
An Oral History of the Zombie War*
09/08: Rose McCauley - The Towers of Trebizond
11/08: Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

* Soon to be a major motion picture.

2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009

1/09: Herman Melville - Billy Budd and Other Stories
5/09: Jack Black - You Can't Win [I loved this]
7/09: Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice
and Zombies and George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman: A Novel
11/09: Willa Cather - The Song of the
Lark and Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies
12/09: Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010

3/10: Zachary Lazar - Sway
4/10: Lord Auch (Georges Bataille) - Story of the Eye
and the Invisible Committee - The Coming Insurrection
7/10: Joshua Gamson - The Fabulous Sylvester: the
Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
9/10: Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
12/10: Charles Burns - Black Hole

2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011

5/11: Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Good Squad
7/11: Kate Buford - Burt Lancaster: An American Life
10/11: John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
12/11: Samuel R. Delany - Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand



More to come...and suggestions are always welcome.

Endnote: Images from The Voice (Jonathan Lethem)
and the BBC (Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens).

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Seven Years of Magic-
al Thinking: The Com-
plete Book Club List

Here are the book club titles
from 2000-2004 (plus editorial
comments). An asterisk means
I didn't have time to read the tit-
le in question. For a history of
the group, please click here.

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11/00: Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian* [I'd like to read this]
12/00: Mikal Gilmore - A Shot in the Heart* [And this, too]

2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001

02/01: Larry McMurtry - The Last Picture Show
[So good I read it twice; great movie, too]
10/01: John Updike - Rabbit, Run and John Cheever - "The
Swimmer" (short story) [Depressing, but I liked them
both...haven't seen the film of the former; own the latter]

2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002

01/02: Katherine Porter - Ship of Fools [Took me awhile
to get into this...but I did. Haven't seen the movie yet]
02/02: Pete Dexter - Paris Trout
[I liked this; haven't seen the movie]
04/02: Bill Buford - Among the Thugs [I loved this]



05/02: Susanna Moore - In the Cut [Some
hated this; not me...I liked the movie, too]
06/02: Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adven-
tures of Kavalier and Clay [I really enjoyed this]
07/02: Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
[Loved it; Altman's quirky adaptation, too]

2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 2003

04/03: Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays
[Cold as ice, but I liked it...haven't seen the movie]
05/03: Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera*
07/03: Phillip K. Dick - Confessions of a Crap Artist
[Not science fiction, but I liked it. Haven't seen the
movie; Jacques Audiard adapted the screenplay]
11/03: Jung Chang - The Wild Swans*
12/03: Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
[I liked this; haven't seen the movie]

2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004

02/04: Mian Mian - Candy [Girl gone wild in mo-
dern China. Like a film by Jia Zhangke come to print]
03/04: Walker Percy - The Movielover [I liked this]
07/04: David W. Maurer - The Big Con [A must for Mamet fans]
10/04: Ben Hecht - A Child of the Century [Didn't finish this]



Endnote: Joan Didion photo from Random House.

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