Themes & Projects

Mysteries, December 2008–January 2009

Maritime literature, January–March 2009

Melville read-through, part I, TypeeWhite-Jacket, December 2009–January 2010

Whirlwind tour of Russian literature, February–May 2010

Epistolary literature, July 2009–June 2010

Melville read-through, part II, Moby-DickBilly Budd, July–September 2010

The Unstructured Clarel Readalong, August–September 2010

The Art of the Novella Challenge, August 2011

The bibliographing Reading Challenge, January 2011–present



Authors

2013 Reading

  • The People on Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam
  • Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
  • The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson
  • The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
  • Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle
  • Ivyland by Miles Klee
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare (re-read)
  • Young Americans by Jordan Castro
  • The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
  • Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish
  • Robinson by Muriel Spark
  • The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
  • Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry
  • Quiet! by Susan Cain
  • The School of Whoredom by Pietro Aretino
  • The Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolaño
  • Rontel by Sam Pink
  • The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
  • Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare