Dispatches from M. Allen Cunningham: February 2012

There's a little Q&A with me up now at Paper Fort, the blog of Literary Arts, those excellent folks who awarded me an Oregon Literary Fellowship.

Cunningham is currently reading:

*Essays From the Nick of Time by Mark Slouka; *The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage; *The Best American Essays 1998 edited by Cynthia Ozick; *Tinkers by Paul Harding; *Moby-Dick by Herman Melville; *Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow; *The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis; *Regeneration by Pat Barker; *Underworld by Don DeLillo; *The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann; *Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence;
(Other recent reads:
-Fame & Folly essays by Cynthia Ozick;
-Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips;
-Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connoly;
-The Din in the Head essays by Cynthia Ozick;
-The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch;
-Great House by Nicole Krauss;
-A Week At the Airport by Alain de Botton;
-The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf;
-Atticus by Ron Hansen;
-Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields;
-U And I by Nicholson Baker;
-The Vivisector by Patrick White;
-The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen;
-An Imaginary Life by David Malouf;
-The Journals of Jules Renard;
-Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology & the Muse edited by Sven Birkerts;
-Peep Show by Joshua Braff;
-Hamlet's Blackberry by William Powers;
-A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel;
-Wartime by Paul Fussell;
-Doing Battle by Paul Fussell;
-The Gift by Lewis Hyde;
-Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton;
-Silences by Tillie Olsen;
-The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel;
-My Father's Tears stories by John Updike;
-The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto by Wallace Stegner;
-Ruskin Today edited by Lord Kenneth Clark;
-You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier;
-Posthumous Keats by Stanley Plumly;
-Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen;
-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen;
-Fast Lanes by Jayne Anne Phillips;
-Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis & Clark Expedition by Campbell McGrath;
-Beg Borrow Steal: A Writer's Life by Michael Greenberg;
-The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen;
-Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips;
-How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen;
-The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp;
-Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon;
-Rabbit Redux by John Updike;
-Art As Experience by John Dewey;
-On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan;
-Technopoly by Neil Postman;
-1984 by George Orwell;
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury;
-Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future by Neil Postman;
-What Are People For? essays by Wendell Berry;
-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley;
-Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges;
-Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman;
-Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr;
-The Ghost Road by Pat Barker;
-Libra by Don DeLillo;
-Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag;
-A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification & Deceit by Eric Larsen;
-The Book of Dads edited by Ben George;
-True & False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by David Mamet;
-The War of Art by Steven Pressfield;
-The Renaissance by Walter Pater;
-A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life by Frederick Busch;
-At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag;
-How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton;
-Rabbit, Run by John Updike;
-Eternity's Woods by Paul Zweig;
-Elsewhere U.S.A. by Dalton Conley;
-American Characteristics by Thornton Wilder
-The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton;
-Reborn, Notebooks & Journals of Susan Sontag 1947-1963 edited by David Rieff;
-Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
-The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton;
-Wallace Stegner's West edited by Page Stegner;
-The Accidental Masterpiece by Michael Kimmelman;
-Arts, Inc.: How Greed & Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights by Bill Ivey;
-Minghella on Minghella edited by Timothy Bricknell;
-The Journals of Thornton Wilder 1939-1961 edited by Donald Gallup;
-Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell;
-Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon;
-Heaven's My Destination by Thornton Wilder;
-The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder;
-Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig;
-Departures by Paul Zweig;
-Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Rieman;
-Fall of Frost by Brian Hall;
-The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard;
-Selected Prose of A.E. Housman;
-Selves at Risk by Ihab Hassan;
-How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn;
-The Next Rodeo by William Kittredge;
-Dictation by Cynthia Ozick;
-American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever;
-The American West as Living Space by Wallace Stegner;
-The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman;
-The Underachiever's Manifesto by Ray Bennett;
-Wallace Stegner & the American West by Philip Fradkin;
-The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts;
-No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July;
-Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner edited by Page Stegner;
-Roderick Hudson by Henry James;
-Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
-The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald;
-The Great Man by Kate Christensen;
-Against the Machine by Lee Siegel;
-Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (second time);
-Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner;
-Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds)

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