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Olive Grove festival walk on March 29 with North Cypriots. Near...

Olive Grove festival walk on March 29 with North Cypriots. Near campus

North Cyprus: http://sybilbaker.tumblr.com/

From February 10, 2015 to August 3, I will be a visiting professor at Middle Eastern Technical University in North Cyprus, and then from late June and July I will be traveling. I've decided to post my photographs and comments on a new Tumblr account which you can access here:


http://sybilbaker.tumblr.com/

2014 Readings

2014 (some are re-readings)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Tehano by Allen Wier
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Scene Book by Sandra Scofield
Twilight by William Gay
Paradise Lost by John Milton
King Lear by Shakespeare
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Jane Eyre Bronte
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
Selected Essays Montaigne
Poems of Emily Dickinson
Out of Place by Richard Jackson
Autobiography of a Face--Lucy Grealy
Chekhov: Selected Stories
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldmen
Life After Life  by Jill McCorkle
The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists by William Ferris
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Selected Stories Alice Munro
After by Kristin Waterfield Duisberg
A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne
Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne
God Forsaken Idaho by Shawn Vestal
Redeployment by Phil Klay
What is the What by Dave Eggers
My Struggle Book 1 Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Stuggle Book 2 Karl Ove Knausgaard
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay
The Empathy Exams Leslie Jamison
Let The Great World Spin Colum McCann
The Postmortal  Drew Magary
Wreaking James Scudamore
52 Blue Leslie Jamison
Eula Biss Notes from No Man's Land
Lily King Euphoria
Rebecca Solnit A Field Guide to Getting Lost
John Jeremiah Sullivan Pulphead
The Department of Speculation Jenny Offil
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante
Reality Hunger David Shields
Thrown Kerry Howley
Living with an Angry God Barbara Ehrenreich
Bright Sided Barbara Ehrenreich
Quiet Susan Cain
Austerlitz WG Sebald
The Story of a New Name Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante
The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrante
The Pat Boone Fan club Sue William Silverman
The Wallcreeper Nell Zink
The Other Language Francesca Marciano
The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich
Southside Buddha by Ira Sukranung
The White Album Joan Didion
Bearwallow Hollow Jeremy Jone
The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq Hassan Blasim
The Hours Michael Cunningham
The End of Absence Michael Harris

September Reading (more or less)

September


Eula Biss Notes from No Man's Land

Lily King Euphoria

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan

Quiet Susan Cain
Bright Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Ruining American by Barbara Ehrenreich

October 14th, 2014

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August reading

My Struggle (Book 2) Karl Ove Knausgaard (read this in July but forgot to list it)

Bad Feminist Roxane Gay

The Empathy Exams Leslie Jamison

Let The Great World Spin Colum McCann

The Postmortal  Drew Magary

Wreaking James Scudamore

52 Blue Leslie Jamison

July Reading

Read lots of short stories and articles in journals and magazines, but only two books:
Redeployment by Phil Klay
What is the What by Dave Eggers

Great article about the history of Itaewon

I cover some of this in Into This World, but this article is more comprehensive:

http://groovekorea.com/article/itaewo...

June reading

I'm reading a lot of books by guys--right now finishing Egger's What is the What and Sebald's Austerlitz. After that it's back to Shlovsky & Russian formalism and Little, Big for my book club. In August, however, my planned reading list (Carol Maso's Ava, Bluetes, Middlemarch, Elena Ferrante, and more Lispecter) will focus on women writers.

June:
My Struggle Part II by Karl Ove Kausgaard
The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne
Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne
God Forsaken Idaho by Shawn Vestal

Workshop class at Yale Writer's Conference

Such a great group of writers!