Books Read 2023

Graphic Novels

A lot of rereads because I picked up print copies…

  • Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years

    Lois Lane: A Celebration of 75 Years

  • Wonder Woman: A Celebration of 75 Years

  • The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years

  • Alias Omnibus by Brian Michael Bendis

  • Batman Adventures: Mad Love Deluxe Edition by Paul Dini

  • Transformers : Evolutions - Hearts of Steel by Chuck Dixon

  • Batman: The Brave & the Bold: The Bronze Age Vol. 1 by Bob Haney

  • Love and Rockets: The Covers by Gilbert Hernández

  • Penny Century by Jaime Hernández

  • Maggie the Mechanic by Jaime Hernández

  • Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernández

  • Tonta by Jaime Hernández

  • Angels And Magpies by Jaime Hernández

  • Perla la Loca by Jaime Hernández

  • The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. by Jaime Hernández

  • Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The Deluxe Edition by Alan Moore

  • Transformers: Lost Light, Vol. 1 by James Roberts,

  • Marvel Masterworks: the X-men 3 by Roy Thomas

  • Marvel Masterworks: the X-men 4 by Roy Thomas

Gaming

  • Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games by Matt Barton

  • Boss Fight Books #28 Final Fantasy VI by Sebastian Deken

  • Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Castlevania by Kurt Kalata

  • The Secret History of Mac Gaming by Richard Moss

  • The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal by Laine Nooney

  • Super Nes Works Volume I: 1991 by Jeremy Parish

  • NES Works Volume III: 1987 by Jeremy Parish

  • 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon by Aaron A. Reed

Fiction

Again, some rereads because I picked up print copies…

  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

  • Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

  • Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney

  • The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid by Seamus Heaney

  • The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables Robert Henryson, Seamus Heaney (Translator)

  • The Translations of Seamus Heaney

  • The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

  • The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales by H.P. Lovecraft

  • A Doll's House and Other Plays (Penguin) by Henrik Ibsen

  • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

  • The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Non-Fiction

  • The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek

  • Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (edited by Jehad Abusalim)

  • The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948–1985 by James Baldwin

  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Norton Critical Edition (translated by Marie Borroff)

  • Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester by Derrick A. Bell

  • Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler

  • Life Against Dementia: Essays, Reviews, Interviews 1975-2011 by Joe Carducci

  • Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Edited by Angela Y. Davis)

  • Cinema 1: The Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze

  • Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin

  • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici

  • Silence is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans by Ian Glasper

  • Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe

  • Superheroes, Movies, and the State: How the U.S. Government Shapes Cinematic Universes by Tricia Jenkins

  • Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones

  • The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones

  • Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons (edited by Colin Kaepernick)

  • Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies (edited by Colin Kaepernick)

  • Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution by Neil Lanctot

  • The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings by Martin Luther

  • Knowledge Socialism: The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence (edited by Michael A. Peters)

  • Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World by James E. Lindsay

  • Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen

  • Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew by John Oller

  • Revelations of Divine Love (Penguin) by Julian of Norwich

  • Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 12-1565 by Walter Simons

  • Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart

  • The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia by Grafton Tanner

  • Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77 by Louise Toupin

  • As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977 by Val Wilmer

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Oxford) by Mary Wollstonecraft

Books Read 2017

  1. The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson
  2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, Simon Armitage (Translator)
  3. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 1 by John Barber
  4. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 2 by John Barber
  5. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 3 by John Barber
  6. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 4 by John Barber
  7. Transformers: Robots In Disguise Volume 5 by John Barber
  8. Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 6 by John Barber
  9. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman by Harold Bloom
  10. The Black Elfstone (The Fall of Shannara, #1) by Terry Brooks
  11. Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That... by Joe Carducci
  12. The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
  13. The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
  14. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
  15. Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin
  16. Captain Marvel (Marvel NOW!) #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
  17. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  18. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
  19. Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay by Harlan Ellison
  20. The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Friedrich Engels
  21. Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings by Manny Farber
  22. Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner
  23. The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Tim Ferriss
  24. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World by Leon Festinger
  25. Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti by Philippe Girard
  26. Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 by Ian Glasper
  27. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  28. A Philosophy of Tragedy by Christopher Hamilton
  29. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris
  30. A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
  31. Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman
  32. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey
  33. Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks
  34. An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
  35. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
  36. Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by Immanuel Kant
  37. The Future is Queer: A Science Fiction Anthology by Richard Labonté
  38. Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge by Alison Landsberg
  39. The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen
  40. Wellsprings by Mario Vargas Llosa
  41. Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
  42. My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor by Keith Morris
  43. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore by Albert Mudrian
  44. A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy
  45. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle
  46. Employee of the Month and Other Big Deals by Mary Jo Pehl
  47. Visual Storytellling: An Illustrated Reader by Todd James Pierce
  48. Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 by Tony Rettman
  49. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
  50. Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers
  51. Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag (Second Edition) by Henry Rollins
  52. American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
  53. Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family by Greg Rucka
  54. Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
  55. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai
  56. A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman
  57. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
  58. Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
  59. Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
  60. Saga, Vol. 1 (Saga, #1) by Brian K. Vaughan
  61. Saga, Vol. 2 (Saga, #2) by Brian K. Vaughan
  62. A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas
  63. Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
  64. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
  65. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
  66. The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer
  67. How Fiction Works by James Wood
  68. No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens by Amy Yates Wuelfing
  69. What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States by Dave Zirin

Signifying Nothing Episode Twenty Two

https://signifyingnothing.net/uncategorized/signifying-nothing-episode-twenty-two/

Playlist

Discharge-Protest & Survive (Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing)
Black Flag-Thirsty & Miserable (Program: Annihilator)

Pisschrist-Plastic Security (Split With Framtid)
Avengers-The American In Me (Self Titled)

Face Value-Someday (Only The Strong)
Floorpunch-No Exceptions (Division One Champs)

Brotherhood-The Deal (Words Run As Thick As Blood)
Mind Eraser-Wrote Off (Glacial Reign)

Bl’ast!-Look Into Myself (It’s In My Blood)
Minutemen-Shit From An Old Notebook (Double Nickels On The Dime)

Shitlickers-Armed Revolution (Cracked Cop Skulls)

Weekly Reader

  • Jeanette Winterson on art during a recession.
  • Norman Thomas di Giovanni’s Website dedicated to Borges and his censored translations is very interesting and worth spending some time with.
  • 2666 reviews: The New York Review Of Books, New York Times, The Quarterly Conversation
  • Part two of Tony Rettman’s interview with Joe Carducci.

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