Summer Reading: Catherine Meng

Continuing with Summer Reading lists from Apostrophe authors, here are two from Catherine Meng, author of Tonight’s the Night:

1. Most Influential

• Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
• Samuel Beckett – Endgame
• Lyn Hejinian – My Life
• Eugenio Montale – The Occasions
• Rainer Maria Rilke – Book of Hours

2. To Be Read This Summer

• Brett C. Millier – Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It
• Elizabeth Bishop – The Complete Poems 1927 – 1979
• Elizabeth Bishop – The Collected Prose
• Mark Lamoureux – Astrometry Orgonon
• Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism – edited by Eugene Ostashevsky

Summer Reading: Johannes Göransson Part II

More summer reading from Johannes Göransson….Some of the books he’s reading or re-reading this summer:

• Joseph Beys, Arena – where would I have got if I had been intelligent

• Ann Jäderlund’s new book

• Karl Larlsson’s Form/Force (which I am also translating)

• Various other Swedish artists whose essays and catalogs I’m translating

• Aaron Kunin, The Mandarin

• Angela Rawlings, Wide Slumber for Leps

• Calling All Agents, Tom McCarthy (I like this manifesto better than
  his novel, Remainder)

• Cinematic Modernism, Susan McCabe

• The Worst of All by Estela Lamat (trans. Michael Leong)

• Victorian Studies (Spring 2008) (About “emotions”)

• Susan McCabe, Descartes’ Nightmare

• Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (trans. Tom Conley)

• Kruchneykh, Suicide Circus (trans. Jack Hirschman etc)

• Kathy Acker, Pussy of the Pirates

• Mark Wallace, Felonies of Illusion

• Huysman, Against Nature

• Cocteau, Potomac (trans. Michael Sanchez)

• Juan Suarez, Bike Boys, Drag Queens and Superstars

• Sara Hallström, Rötter Smälter

• Amelia Rosselli, The Dragonfly (trans Guisepe Leporace and Deborah Woodard)

• Jane Miller, Palace of Pearls

• A lot of published and unpublished French and English translation
  editions of Henri Michaux