At work on: The Books of Jacob; Lady Joker; The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century
2024
MARCH
The Books of Jacob (Pt 1-3)
Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood
FEBRUARY
The Burnout Society, Byung Chul Han
The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner
Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen
JANUARY
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
Yoga (novel), Emmanuel Carrere
Ernest Hemingway on Writing
The Strange Case of Rachel K, Rachel Kushner
2023
DECEMBER
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, Hal Foster
Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories, Joy Williams
The Return (stories), Roberto Bolano
中文：I name him me, Selected Poem of Ma Yan, trans. Stephen Nashef [second half]
NOVEMBER
Liberation Day: Stories, George Saunders
Convenience Store Woman, Saya Murata
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly [as part of the WLSA curriculum]
Sculpting In Time, Andrei Tarkovsky
中文：I name him me, Selected Poem of Ma Yan, trans. Stephen Nashef [first half]
OCTOBER
Libra, Don Delillo
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Professor Anderson’s Night, Dag Solstaad
Last Evenings on Earth (stories), Roberto Bolano
SEPTEMBER
Hitchcock, Truffaut
The Afternoon of a writer, Peter Handke
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
Maps & Legends, Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands, Michael Chabon
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald [as part of the WLSA curriculum]
AUGUST
Bobcat (stories), Rebecca Lee
Michael Haneke, Peter Brunette
Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal
Conversations with Don Delillo
Radical Museology: Or, What’s ‘contemporary’ in Museums of Contemporary Art, Claire Bishop
中文：Vertical Motion, Can Xue (stories 11-13)
JULY
V, Thomas Pynchon
Andy Warhol Diaries, Andy Warhol
Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy, David Hickey
Suite Vénitienne, Sophie Calle
True Stories, Sophie Calle
中文：Vertical Motion, Can Xue (stories 8-10)
JUNE
The Employees, Olga Ravn
When the House Burns Down. From the Dialect of Thought, Giorgio Agamben, trans. by Kevin Attell
I am the Brother of XX (stories), Fleur Jaeggy
The Bathroom, Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Introducing Don Delillo, edited by Frank Lentricchia
中文：Vertical Motion, Can Xue (stories 4-7)
MAY
On the New, Boris Groys
The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (stories), Haruki Murakami
Burning Down the House, Essays on Fiction, Charles Baxter
中文：Vertical Motion, Can Xue (stories 1-3)
APRIL
Alice at the Fire, Jon Fosse
Boathouse, Jon Fosse
Where Europe Begins, Yoko Tawada
The Land at the End of the World, Antonio Lobo Antunes
中文: To Live, Yu Hua (second half)
MARCH
Burning Chrome, William Gibson
The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
Contemporary Art: A very short introduction, Julian Stallabrass
The Yellow Arrow, Victor Pelevin
Filthy Animals (stories), Brandon Taylor
中文: To Live, Yu Hua (first half)
FEBRUARY
A Heart so White, Javier Marias
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick
Crazy Cloud Ikkyu: Version and Inventions, Stephen Berg
Dirty Snow, Georges Simenon
中文：Invisibility Cloak, Ge Fei (second half)
JANUARY
Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima
When I was mortal (stories), Javier Marias
Limonov, Emmanuelle Carrere
Old School, Tobias Wolff
Steps, Jerzy Kosinksi
中文：Invisibility Cloak, Ge Fei (first half)
2022
DECEMBER
Distant Star, Roberto Bolano
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
T Singer, Dag Solstad
The Fiction of Roberto Bolano, An Expanding Universe, Chris Andrews
NOVEMBER
Vaseline Buddha, Jung Young Moon
Tin Tin and the Secret of Literature, Tom McCarthy
Goodbye Columbus, Philip Roth
OCTOBER
The Voice Imitator, Thomas Bernhard
Dictee, Teresa Hak Kyung Cha
My Struggle: Book 2, Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Weird and the Eerie, Mark Fisher
SEPTEMBER
Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt
Last Nights on Earth, Roberto Bolano
AUGUST
Missing Person, Patrick Modiano
Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke
Break It Down, Lydia Davis book I
Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish, Tom McCarthy
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
Severance, Ling Ma
Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar
JULY
Purity, Jonathan Franzen
Reality Hunger, David Neal
Here Are The Young Men, Rob Doyle
Shyness and Dignity, Dag Solstad
Land of Big Numbers, Te-Ping Chen
The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Peter Handke
JUNE
The Pacific: The Ocean of the Future, Simon Winchester
This Is the Ritual, Rob Doyle
Short Cuts, Raymond Carver
The Overstory, Richard Powers
The Zen Poetry of Dogen
Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu
Girl With Curious Hair, DFW
The Shining, Stephen King
MAY
Remainder, Tom McCarthy
Whites, Norman Rush
The Marriage Plot, Eugenedies
Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff
Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell
APRIL
No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
A Swim a Pond In the Rain, George Saunders
Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson
Young Skins, Colin Barrett
Come West and See, Maxime Lukoff
Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors
Fortune Smiles, Adam Johnson
A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet
Sorry, Please Thank You, Charles Yu
MARCH
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Organs of Sense, Adam Ehrlich Sachs
McGlue, Ottessa Moshfegh
A Most Ambiguous Sunday, Jung Young Moon
Threshold, Rob Doye
Vox, Nicholson Baker
FEBRUARY
Red Pill, Hari Kunzru
Wallless Space, Ernst Meister
Homesick for Another World, Ottessa Moshfegh
Purgatory, Rual Zurita
JANUARY
Pastoralia, George Saunders
Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam
The New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, James Bridle
Four New Messages, Joshua Cohen