John M

I enjoy reading graphic novels, "difficult" fiction (DFW! Barth and his brother -elme!), literary mid-list crap, non-fiction, and poetry, mostly NY School 2nd generation (ok, ok, Ted Berrigan) and some of the more obscure Beats (ok, ok, Philip Whalen), though I'm starting to get into Rae Armantrout and Jimmy Schuyler. Whitman, Williams and... more »

I enjoy reading graphic novels, "difficult" fiction (DFW! Barth and his brother -elme!), literary mid-list crap, non-fiction, and poetry, mostly NY School 2nd generation (ok, ok, Ted Berrigan) and some of the more obscure Beats (ok, ok, Philip Whalen), though I'm starting to get into Rae Armantrout and Jimmy Schuyler. Whitman, Williams and Dickinson. John Berryman. Eliot has always bored the crap out of me. I love Auden.

If I read very very tiny amounts of Gertrude Stein at a sitting it's amazing, birds sing, and I get it. More than that and the Hardy Boy-reading ('O rocks! Tell us in plain words") part of me starts to want dog to mean, well, a dog.

Joyce. I was in Dublin for Bloomsday 100. « less