Books I’ve bought intending to read

Posted on February 6, 2012 by markweiss86

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by J. Agee and W. Evans
Instrument on Chronicle books, about guitars and their players, by Pat Graham perhaps
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
A book of poetry by Octavio Paz with illustrations by Marie Paz
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a gift from my brother Richard
Reality Hunger by David Shields
Gentle Order by Dao Strom, especially the passages about Agee “Death in the Family”
Eisenhower White House Years by Jim Newton
Iron Man book by Jacques Steinberg
a rare old book about racial categories from Bell’s Books
something by Tobias Wolfe
Andre Dubus collection includes The Pitcher
John Wieners collection, letters and poems
John Adams Hallelujah Junction
a book of interviews with Ray Bradbury
a collection of interviews with Steve Lacy
William Davidow book Overconnected
Lincoln Reader vintage pocket
Maria Kalman Abraham LIncoln (intended as a gift)
Larry Sultan photo monograph
Diebenkorn in New Mexico
Manuel Reyes photos — that’s not his name
James Sullivan’s book about James Brown
Elijah Wald on the Beatles, How They Destroyed Rock and Roll

from either Palo Alto or Foothill libraries, on loan:
War and Peace by Tolstoy
Sci Fi essay anthology including Philip K. Dick
A Plato Reader, for “the cave”

There’s got to be 100 magazines as well.

But for now: Walls, Boyle, Steinbeck, for a class.

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Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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6 Responses to Books I’ve bought intending to read

  1. Mark Weiss's avatar Mark Weiss says:
    February 6, 2012 at 10:50 pm

    manuel alvarez bravo, which i got in santa fe in a spanish english bookstore near the plaza, and near the lencic.
    http://shop.getty.edu/product542.html

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  2. Mark Weiss's avatar Mark Weiss says:
    February 6, 2012 at 10:51 pm

    instrument is also jem cohen’s whitney biennial about fugazi, so only fitting that ian mackaye is in this book:
    http://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/instrument.html

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  5. Mark Weiss's avatar Mark Weiss says:
    February 6, 2012 at 10:55 pm

    i got this for a dollar at a sidewalk sale in SF but the lady inscribed it to me noting that i got the discount because I vowed to ask out Ann Packer, if I ever run into her, like in an elevator

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  6. Mark Weiss's avatar Mark Weiss says:
    February 6, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    I will always remember, whether I finish the book, reading aloud from Daniyal Mueenuddin “In Other Rooms” to my parents in Santa Fe, August,2011; he is my Dartmouth classmate, although I don’t recall that we’ve met. Jane Steinberg said he stood out even then.
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/05/conversation-daniyal-mueenuddin.html

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