Books suggested to date...

Ara Shirinyan:
Andre Breton, Selections **
Georges Perec, Three **
Walter Abish, Alphabetical Africa **

Amanda Yates:
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky **
Rebecca Brown, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary **

Harold Abramowitz:
Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science **
Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life? **

Nicholas Grider:
David Markson, This is Not a Novel **
Nicholas says, "Just about as good a meditation on writing (and on death) that you can read, it's a brian-mashing novel-length list of the deaths and illnesses of "famous" novelists and other culture-producers. A quick and devastating read."
Kathy Acker, My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini **
Nicholas says, "Acker proposes Nominalism, and follows through. Opens up (to me at least) the essential idea that writing is a field of _possibility_, not a form to be filled out as elegantly and politely as possible. Anything can (and should, and does) happen.

Jesse Whitney:
Frank Herbert, Dune **
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow **

Sean Deyoe:
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity **
Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture --
Bernadette Corporation, Reena Spaulings **

Sam Stern:
Anthony Burgess, Enderby **
Bruce Jay Friedman, The Dick **

Stephanie Rioux:
George Elliot, Middlemarch **
Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life **
Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu **
Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter **

Stan Apps:
Henri Michaux, Darkness Moves, an Anthology **
William Carlos Williams, Spring And All **
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season In Hell **

Jared Olmsted:
Daniel Clowes, David Boring **
Chester Brown, The Playboy **

Christine Wertheim:
Russel Hoban, Riddley Walker **
The Bible, The Book of Revelations

The Pile:
In Process...
Samuel Beckett, The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 **
Christian Bok (ed.), Ground Works: Avant-Garde For Thee **
Andre Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism **
Compte de Lautreamont, Maldoror & the Complete Works **
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, anti-oedipus: capitalism and schizophrenia **
Don DeLillo, White Noise **
Jean Genet, the Thief's Journal **
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime **
Alfred Jarry, Adventures In 'Pataphysics **
Gordon Lish, My Romance **
Warren F. Motte, Jr., Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature **
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire **
Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus **
David Foster Wallace, Oblivion **

The Rest...
John Cage, Silence **
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life **
Ralph Cusack, Cadenza **
Steve Erickson, Our Ecstatic Days **
Raymond Federman, The Precipice and Other Catastrophes **
Michael Joyce, Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions **
Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion **
Norman Klein, The History of Forgetting **
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee **
Henrik Ibsen, Four Major Plays: Vol. 1 (A Doll House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder) **
Ben Marcus and Matthew Ritchie, The Father Costume **
Philippe Soupault, Last Nights of Paris **

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