While it's common for bloggers to share what books, films, articles of clothing, means of transportation, etc. they have consumed, utilized, or mail-ordered, I'm caught between want and wealth, having not yet achieved my school-season cushion capital. So I share with you a list of to-acquire items, to remind myself that while I haven't read half the titles on my procreant shelves, and while it is nice to eat every now and then, my consumerist lust for MORE perdures:
(titles by no means rarified or novel)
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History by Jill Lepore
The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext[e]/ Intervention) by The Invisible Committee
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems by David Rakoff
Half Empty by David Rakoff (the first chapter did it for me)
Political Writings 1953-1993 by Maurice Blanchot
In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan by Seth G. Jones
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future by Robert B. Reich
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America) by James Baldwin
Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook ed. by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins by Bob Blumenthal
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Le Style Apollinaire: The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire by Louis Zukofsky
Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word ed. by Charles Bernstein
The Alphabet by Ron Silliman
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