Howard Norman
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“What good is intelligence if you cannot ever discover a useful melancholy?” - Akutagawa
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April 6th - September 28th, 2012
June 7th - June 29th, 2013
August 10th - August 27th, 2014
July 11th - December 9th 2015
Samson Clyde Leonard
There Are No Doctors In The Home Of The Disco Rock & Roll
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Books I am Reading Now:
- Murakami- Men without Women
Trails I Have Thru-Hiked:
April 6th - September 28th, 2012
LT
June 7th - June 29th, 2013
SHT
August 10th - August 27th, 2014
PCT
July 11th - December 9th 2015
Books I Like:
- Abbey- Black Sun
- Abbey- The Monkey Wrench Gang
- Akutagawa- Japanese Short Stories
- Akutagawa- Mandarins
- Ashton- Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music
- Babel- You Must Know Everything
- Barrie- Peter Pan
- Baum- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Bourdain- Kitchen Confidential
- Boyd- White Bicycles
- Bryson- A Walk in the Woods
- Bukowski- Ham on Rye
- Bukowski- Post Office
- Bukowski- Women
- Bulgakov- Notes on the Cuff
- Bulgakov- The Master and Margarita
- Capote- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Capote- In Cold Blood
- Capote- Music for Chameleons
- Capote- Other Voices, Other Rooms
- Capote- The Muses are Heard
- Carver- Cathedral
- Carver- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- Carver- Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
- Connors- Fire Season
- Diamond- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Dillard- For The Time Being
- Dillard- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Dillard- Teaching a Stone to Talk
- Dostoyevsky- Notes From the Underground
- Elpel- Botany in a Day
- Elpel- Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, and Survival Skills
- Emerson- Essays
- Erdrich- Tracks
- Ets- In the Forest
- Exupery- Flight to Arras
- Exupery- Little Prince
- Exupery- Night Flight
- Exupery- Sand Wind and Stars
- Fante- Ask The Dust
- Fante- Dreams from Bunker Hill
- Fante- The Road to Los Angeles
- Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
- Gogol- The Overcoat and other Tales of Good and Evil
- Greene- The End of the Affair
- Harris- Eat the Weeds
- Hemingway- A Moveable Feast
- Hemingway- The Complete Short Stories
- Hemingway- The Garden of Eden
- Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea
- Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises
- Hemingway- To Have and Have Not
- Huxley- Brave New World
- Irving- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Irving- A Son of the Circus
- Irving- The Hotel New Hampshire
- Irving- The Water Method Man
- Irving- The World According to Garp
- Jacobsen- Niels Lyhne
- Kang- The Vegetarian
- Kawabata- Snow Country
- Kerouac- Dharma Bums
- Kerouac- On the Road
- Krakauer- Into The Wild
- Krakauer- Into Thin Air
- Kundera- The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting
- Lawrence- Sons and Lovers
- Lawrence- The Fox
- Lawrence- The Virgin and The Gipsy
- Lopez- About This Life
- Lopez- Crow and Weasel
- Lopez- Light Action in the Caribbean
- Lopez- Of Wolves and Men
- Lopez- Resistance
- Maclean- Young Men and Fire
- MacLeod- Island
- MacLeod- No Great Mischief
- Markham- West with the Night
- Marquez- Chronicles of a Death Foretold
- McCullers- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
- McCullers- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- McDonnel- The Pacific Crest Handbook
- Mowat- A Whale for the Killing
- Mowat- Never Cry Wolf
- Muir- My First Summer it the Sierra
- Murakami- 1Q84
- Murakami- After Dark
- Murakami- After the Quake
- Murakami- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage
- Murakami- Kafka on the Shore
- Murakami- Men without Women
- Murakami- South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Murakami- The Elephant Vanishes
- Murakami- The Strange Library
- Murakami- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
- Murakami- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Nabokov- An Invitation To a Beheading
- Nabokov- Bend Sinister
- Nabokov- Complete Short Stories
- Nabokov- Despair
- Nabokov- Glory
- Nabokov- King, Queen, Knave
- Nabokov- Lolita
- Nabokov- Pnin
- Nabokov- The Defense
- Nabokov- The Eye
- Nabokov- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- Nabokov- Transparent Things
- Newcomb- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide
- Norman- Between Heaven and Earth
- Norman- Devotion
- Norman- I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place
- Norman- In Fond Remembrance Of Me
- Norman- Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad
- Norman- My Darling Detective
- Norman- My Famous Evening
- Norman- Next Life Might Be Kinder
- Norman- The Bird Artist
- Norman- The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese
- Norman- The Haunting of L.
- Norman- The Museum Guard
- Norman- The Northern Lights
- Norman- What is Left the Daughter
- O'Brian- The Third Policeman
- O'Connor- A Good Man is Hard to Find
- O'Connor- Everything that Rises Must Converge
- O'Connor- The Violent Bear it Away
- O'Reilly- Green Mountains
- Olcott- Field Book Of The Stars
- Orwell- 1984
- Orwell- Animal Farm
- Peary- Northward Over the Great Ice Volume I
- Peary- Northward Over the Great Ice Volume II
- Peary- The North Pole
- Peterson Field Guide- Birds of Eastern and Central North America
- Peterson Field Guide- Edible Wild Plants
- Peterson Field Guide- Western Medical Plants and Herbs
- Portis- Gringos
- Portis- The Dog of the South
- Rilke- Letters To A Young Poet
- Rilke- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
- Rilke- Where Silence Reigns
- Robbins- Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- Robbins- Still Life with Woodpecker
- Robinson- Housekeeping
- Robinson- Victory Over Pain
- Roth- The Plot Against America
- Saint-Exupery- The Little Prince
- Saint-Exupery- Wind, Sand and Stars
- Salinger- Franny and Zooey
- Salinger- Nine Stories
- Salinger- Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters
- Salinger- The Catcher In The Rye
- Satchidananda- Integral Yoga Hatha
- Shakespeare- Halmet
- Sheng~Yen- The Six Paramitas
- Shrigley- The Book of Shrigley
- Sinclair- The Jungle
- Smith- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
- Steinbeck- Cannery Row
- Steinbeck- The Long Valley
- Steinbeck- The Red Pony
- Steinbeck- The Winter of Our Discontent
- Steinbeck- Tortilla Flat
- Steinbeck- Travels with Charley
- Teale- Autumn Across America
- Teale- Journey Into Summer
- Teale- North With The Spring
- Teale- The Wilderness World of John Muir
- Teale- Wandering Through Winter
- Thomas- Quite Early One Morning
- Turgenev- The Diary Of A Superfluous Man
- Veloso- Tropical Truth
- Vonnegut- The Sirens of Titan
- William- Scott McClanahan
- Wilson- Night Thoughts
- Wilson- The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles
- Wolff- This Boys Life
- X- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Books I Plan To Read:
- Abbey- Desert Solitaire
- Bhagavad Gita
- Burroughs- Billy Watson's Crocker Sack
- Burroughs- John Burrough's America
- Capra- The Tao of Physics
- Carpenter- Farm City
- Carson- Silent Spring
- Carson- The Edge Of The Sea
- Cartarescu- Blinding
- Darwin- Origin Of Species
- Davidson- Tracks
- Gibbons- Stalking the Wild Asparagus
- Heat~Moon- Blue Highway
- Hoover- The Gift of the Deer
- Isherwood- A Single Man
- John de Crevecoeur- Letters from and American Farmer
- Keith- The Vegetarian Myth
- Kharms- Today I Wrote Nothing
- Laurence- The Diviners
- Lowry- Under the Volcano
- Mann- The Magic Mountain
- Nabokov- The Original of Laura
- Nansen- Farthest North
- Obstfelder- A Priest's Diary
- Paulsen- Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
- Peat- Blackfoot Physics
- Perrin- Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer
- Peterson and Fisher- Wild America
- Robinson- Gilead
- Rodoreda- Death In Spring
- Saroyan- The Human Comedy
- Slocum- Sailing Alone Around The World
- Sorokin- Day of the Oprichnik
- Stevenson- Aes Triplex
- Suzuki- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
- Teale- The Junior Book of Insects
- Thomas- Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog
- Thomson- The Seasons
- Troost- The Sex Lives of Cannibals
- Wharton- Ethan Frome
- Williams- Butcher's Crossing
- Woolf- Waves
- Zweig- Chess Story
Musicians That I Have Seen
- !!!
- Allen Toussaint
- Andrew Bird
- Bo Diddley
- Buddy Guy
- Cameron (from Horsethief)
- Caroline Smith
- Clara Berry & Wool Dog
- Damn Personals
- David Byrne
- Derek Trucks
- Dr. Dog
- Emily Wells
- Hospitality
- Jens Lekmen
- Jimmy Cliff
- Joe Pass
- Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood Score)
- Kate Bush
- Kishi Bashi
- Kurt Rosenwinkel
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Leonard Cohen
- Maps & Atlases
- Michael Hurley
- Migguel Anggelo
- of Montreal
- Palace
- Paul Simon
- Peelander Z
- Quilt
- Ray Charles
- Richard Thompson
- Rumblebucket
- Seasick Mama
- Shango
- Soggy Po' Boys
- Sonny Landreth
- Steve Reich
- The Books
- The Tallest Man On Earth
- Thee Oh Sees
- Tom Zé
- Tomboy
- Ty Segall
- Walking Shapes
- Why?