Thing by Colin Dickey, writer. Something of a commonplace book, quotes of things I’m reading that I’m saving for later. Mostly for myself. For more information about me see www.colindickey.com.
Silvina Ocampo, The Promise Hildur Knútsdóttir, Dead Weight Melissa Beck, The Typographic Plates of Ward Ritchie Carmen Boullosa, Before Kathryn Bromwich, At the Edge of the Woods Annie Ernaux, A Woman’s Story Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep Seamus Heaney, The Burial At Thebes Daniel Kraus, Angel Down Vaness Place, Dies: A Sentence* Patrick Radden Keefe,…
Helle Helle, They Gray Barker, Behold the Behemouth: Colllected Poems Gabriel McKee, The Saucerian: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker Michael Ondaatje, Warlight* Maria Pinto, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me About Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden…
Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium Rachilde, The Tower of Love Natasha Lennard, Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life Gregor Rens, The City and the World Henry James, The Wings of the Dove* Edward W. Said, Orientalism Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness Thomas Beckford, Vathek Giorgi Vachnadze, Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral…
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House* Liz Moore, The God of the Woods Mary Shelley, Frankenstein* Ave Barrera, Restoration Olga Ravn, The Wax Child Joanna Walsh, My Life as a Godard Movie Zefyr Lisowski, Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger* Brian Fagan, The LIttle Ice Age: How Climate Made Europe, 1300-1850 Margaret Watts Hughes, Sound…
John Blair, Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World Jenny Erpenbeck, Things That Disappear Kevin J. Wetmore, Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters Caroline Fraser, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers Maggie Nelson, Like Love Lia Purpura, All the Fierce Tethers Irene Solà, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness…
Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape* Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death* Bruce Boone, A Century of Clouds* Fanny Howe, The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place* Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus* Jay Anson, The Amityville Horror* B. Traven, The Death Ship Inger Christensen, The Painted Room Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My…
Cristina Rivera Garza, Death Takes Me Han Kang, We Do Not Part Edwidge Danticat, We’re Alone Don DeLillo, Mao II* Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy Barry Lopez, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter* Lucy Sante, Nineteen Reservoirs Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man * Robert Bresson, Notes on…
Olivia Laing, Everybody: A Book About Freedom Augustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird Laura Marris, The Age of Loneliness Andrew Elias Colarusso, The Sovereign Andrea Long Chu, Authority Elizabeth Winkler, Shakespeare Was a Woman, and Other Heresies Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Innoculation* Renee Gladman, To After That Leila Taylor, Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of…
Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Ben Hecht, Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath* Jean-Baptiste Fressoz & Fabian Locher, Chaos in the Heavens: The Forgotten History of Climate Change Eliot Weinberger, Angels & Saints Leanne Shapton, Waterloo–City, City–Waterloo Nina MacLaughlin, Winter Solstice: An Essay* Emily Mester, American Bulk:…
Katherine Dunn, Geek Love* Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock Elizabeth Willis, Liontaming in America Jon Fosse, A Shining Benjamin Labatut, The MANIAC Franz Kafka, Diaries Anne Carson, Grief Lessons* Anne Carson, An Oresteia* Mary Shelley, Frankenstein* Amy Shearn, Animal Instinct Yoko Ogawa, Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales * Christopher Brown, A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field…
Ananda Lima, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil Anna Rasche, The Stone Witch of Florence T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead Elizabeth Hardwick, The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick Lena Valencia, Mystery Lights Susan Orlean, The Library Book Sofia Samatar, Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life Hasanthika Sirisena, Dark Tourist Blair LM Kelley, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black…
Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees* Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Karl Ove Knausgaard, So Much Longing In So Little Space Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Stacey D'Erasmo, The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room* Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway* Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse* Elisa Gabbert, Any Person Is the Only Self Sara Gran, Come Closer *…
Alexandra West, Gore-Geous: Personal Essays on Beauty and Horror Ann Radcliffe, The Italian* Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho* Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance* Jules Michelet, The Sea Jac Jemc, The Grip of It Dubravka Ugresic, The Culture of Lies Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night Deborah Stratman & Sukhdev Sandhu, Geologic Listening Philip Hoare, The Whale: In Search of the…
Jane Austen, Persuasion Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey* Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice* Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy & Their Own Families * Iris Moon, Melancholy Wedgwood B. Brian Foster, I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place & the Backbeat of Black Life Danielle Dutton, Prairie, Dresses,…
Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock * Dan Fox, Limbo Amy Shearn, Dear Edna Sloan Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia Nina MacLaughlin, Winter Solstice: An Essay Natania Meeker & Antonia Szabari, Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room * Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own * Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems…
Jon Fosse, Trilogy J. K. Huysmans, Lá-bas Stephen King, Night Shift * Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest Marina Benjamin, A LIttle Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women Nina MacLaughlin, Winter Solstice Elaine Scarry, On Beauty, and Being Just Arthur Schnitzler, Dream Story * Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Lyric Novella Manjula Martin, The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural…
Samatha Hunt, The Unwritten Book: An Investigation Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes Mitch Horowitz, Modern Occultism: History, Theory, and Practice Teju Cole, Tremor J. M. Coetzee, The Pole Ken Hollings, Inferno: A Genealogy of 1960s Trash Culture Nathaniel Lachenmeyer, 13: The Story of the World’s Most Popular Superstition * Stephen King, The Shining * Kevin Young, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes,…
Cameron McWhirter & Zusha Elinson, American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 Mike Rothschild, Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories Georges Bataille, Critical Essays, Vol. 1 (1944-1948) Enrico Monacelli, The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism Paul Tremblay, The Beast You Are Angela Carter, Saints and Strangers Nina MacLaughlin, Wake,…
Gilles Deleuze, Coldness and Cruelty * Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder Charlotte Van den Broeck, Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy Annie Ernaux, The Years Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani, Merits of the Plague Cody Cassidy, How to Survive HIstory: How to Outrun a…
Polina Barskova, Living Pictures Martin McDonagh, The Pillow Man Allison C. Meier, Grave Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Borealis Susan Howe, Concordance Rachel Cusk, Coventry Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or, a Life of Montaigne Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory Dorothe Nors, A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism,…