What Mark Brown read (reads and re-reads):
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 5/8
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin 5/10
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe 5/22
Reflections by Walter Benjamin 5/25
The Book of Forbidden Words by Robert Anton Wilson 5/29
Wyst: Alastor 1716 by Jack Vance
Here's what I read (reads and re-reads)
The Infinite Mistress, D. Scott Apel
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, Lawrence Block
Mary, Vladimir Nabokov
Ghost Town, Tom Perrotta
The Occult Timothy Leary: The Tarot, Magical States, and Post-Terrestrial Evolution, Joseph Flatley
Epicureanism, Tim O'Keefe
As usual, everyone else is invited to report what they read in May in the comments.
2 comments:
I read “Their Eyes Are Watching God” by Hurston.
Seattle Mystic, Brad Holden
The Culture of Spontaneity, Daniel Belgrad
Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsburg
Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
The Beat Generation, Brandon Osborne
Some RAW fans might find Seattle Mystic interesting. It’s a biography of Al Hubbard AKA the Johnny Appleseed of LSD. He was very active in turning people on to acid back in the early days when it was still legal. He was friends with Huxley and introduced acid to Silicon Valley and was therefore indirectly responsible for turning on Steve Jobs. He’s discussed briefly in Schlain and Lee’s acid dreams.
I have mixed feelings about Naked Lunch. This was my third attempt at it and I finally finished it. There were long stretches where I was completely caught up in what Burroughs was doing and others where I had to force myself to move on to the next word.
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