June 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men (1995)
• Michael Moorcock, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
• Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity (1955)

visual:

• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1983 to 1984
• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1985 to 1986

nonfiction:

• Michael Pollan, A World Appears (2026)
• Bill Perkins, Die with Zero (2020)

movies:

• Kane Parsons, Backrooms (2026)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

May 2026 reading

fiction:

• Samuel M. Moss, The Veldt Institute (2025)
• Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) (2020)
• Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels (1955)

visual:

• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1981 to 1982

nonfiction:

• Caroline Tracey, Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History (2026)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

April 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Nicholson Baker, House of Holes (2011)
• Lee Child, Killing Floor (1997)

visual:

• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: Comics and Stories 1950–2000
• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1979 to 1980

nonfiction:

• David Michaelis, Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (2007)

movies:

• James Whale, Frankenstein (1931)
• James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein (1935) *
• Phil Roman, Bill Melendez, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) *

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

March 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) (2020)
• Beatriz Serrano, Discontent (2023)

nonfiction:

• William E. Jones, Halsted Plays Himself: Expanded Edition (2011/2022)

movies:

• Yasujirō Ozu, Tokyo Story (1953) *
• Harry Lighton, Pillion (2025)
• Fred Halsted, Sextool (1975)

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

February 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Tony Duvert, Odd Jobs (1978)

poetry:

• William Minor, Sketches and Exasperations of a Big Wooden Dummy (2025)

nonfiction:

• Josh Peterson, Granite City Blues (2019)

movies:

• William Friedkin, To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
• Fred Halsted, Sex Garage (1972)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

January 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers (1943)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan (1913)

visual:

• Tom Gauld, Physics for Cats (2025)
• Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do (2017)

nonfiction:

• Jamie Stewart, Anything That Moves (2023)
• Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (2021)

movies:

• Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme (2025)
• Chloé Zhao, Hamnet (2025)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

December 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth’s Core (1914)
• C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny (2023)

nonfiction:

• Josh Peterson, Missing (2018)

movies:

• John Carpenter, Escape from New York (1981)
• Tim Burton, Beetlejuice (1988)
• Craig Brewer, Song Sung Blue (2025)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

November 2025 reading

fiction:

• Charles Portis, Norwood (1966)
• Han Kang, The Vegetarian (2007)
• Vincent Latronico, Perfection (2022)
• Barry Gifford, Perdita Durango (1992)
• Barry Gifford, Francis Goes to the Seashore (1982)
• Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme (1968)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (1912)

visual:

• Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story (2023)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

October 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Barry Gifford, Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves (1979)
• Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart (1989)
• Michael Moorcock, The Hollow Lands (1974)
• Michael Moorcock, The End of All Songs (1976)

nonfiction:

• Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1908)
• Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (2023)

movies:

• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (2025)
• Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza (2021)
• Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia (2025)
• Fred Halsted, L.A. Plays Itself (1972)

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

August/September 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jean Genet, The Thief’s Journal (1949)
• Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957)
• Michael Moorcock, An Alien Heat (1972)
• Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake (2024)
• Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (1951)
• Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
• Stephen King, Carrie (1974)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912) *

nonfiction:

• Jane Giles, The Cinema of Jean Genet: Un chant d’amour

movies:

• Jean Genet, Un chant d’amour (1954) *
• Chuck Jones, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965) *
• Saul Bass, Phase IV (1974)
• Eliza Hittman, Beach Rats (2017)
• Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride (1987)
• Eugenio Martín, Horror Express (1972)
• Steve Scott, Rough Cut (1979)
• Fatty Arbuckle, Coney Island (1917)
• Luca Guadagnino, Challengers (2024)

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

June/July 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
• Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
• Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman
• Joe Westmoreland, Tramps Like Us
• Eando Binder, Adam Link - Robot

visual:

• Charles Burns, Final Cut
• Kristen Radtke, Imagine Wanting Only This

nonfiction:

• Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
• Matt Young, Eat the Apple
• Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long

movies:

• Spike Jonze, Her
• Garret Price, Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary
• Joseph Kosinski, F1

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

May 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Gary Indiana, Do Everything in the Dark *

nonfiction:

• (Harold Bloom, ed.), Modern Critical Interpretations: Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
• Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
• Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club>
• Chris Fink, Forage Like a Bear

movies:

• Luca Guadagnino, Queer

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

March/April 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Allan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library
• Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
• Harry Crews, Body

visual:

• Barry Phipps, Driving a Table Down
• Wolf Von Eckardt, Marcel Breuer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Bryan Caplan, Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
• David Heatley, My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down

nonfiction:

• Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One
• Lisa Carver, Lover of Leaving
• Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

movies:

• Federico Fellini, Fellini Satyricon
• Todd Haynes, Poison *
• Gordon Douglas, Them!
• George Butler & Robert Fiore, Pumping Iron
• Bong Joon Ho, Mickey 17

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

January/February 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
• Miranda July, All Fours

visual:

• Barry Phipps, Between Gravity and What Cheer: Iowa Photographs
• Sarah Crowner, Patterns
• Dash Shaw, Blurry
• David Heatley, Qualification
• Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury Nation

nonfiction:

• Bob Ostertag, Encounters with Men
• Edmund White, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
• William E. Jones, True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell

movies:

• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
• James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
• Gia Coppola, The Last Showgirl
• Jon Nguyen, David Lynch: The Art Life
• David Lynch, Eraserhead *
• David Lynch, Blue Velvet *
• David Lynch, Wild at Heart *
• David Lynch, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me *
• David Lynch, Lost Highway *

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

December 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose
• Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God

nonfiction:

• Jeph Jerman & Aram, Yardumian, Listen: Jeph Jerman in Conversation with Aram Yardumian
• Phil Freeman, In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor

movies:

• Gints Zilbalodis, Flow
• Emerald Fennell, Saltburn

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

November 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
• Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

visual:

• Tom Gauld, Baking with Kafka

nonfiction:

• Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology *

movies:

• Richard Kern, The Right Side of My Brain
• Christina Tillman & Joe Losurdo, You Weren’t There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977–1984
• Heinz Emigholz, Maillart's Bridges

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

September/October 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

visual:

• Robert Beatty, Floodgate Companion

nonfiction:

• James Parker, Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
• James Parker, Turned On: A Biography of Henry Rollins
• Geoff Dyer, White Sands
• Greta Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces

movies:

• Ryusuke Hamaguchi, GIFT (with live soundtrack by Eiko Ishbashi)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

July/August 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Donna Tartt, The Secret History
• Charles Portis, True Grit
• Robert Silverberg, The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party
• Stephen King, Desperation

visual:

• Bob Black & Bruno Borges, The Abolition of Work

nonfiction:

• Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
• Richard Koloda, Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
• Marcia Bjornerud, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth

movies:

• Rob Reiner, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
• Albert Brooks, Defending Your Life *

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

June 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin
• Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains
• Edmund White, A Saint from Texas
• Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
• John Knowles, A Separate Peace

poetry:

• Jandek, The Element of Nothing

nonfiction:

• Lucy Sante, The Factory of Facts
• Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk *

movies:

• Blake Edwards, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather *
• Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part II *
• Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part III *

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

April–May 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves
• Jerzy Kosińksi, Steps

visual:

• Kevin Huizenga, The River at Night
• Evan Doherty, Stop Looking at My Tiny Town

nonfiction:

• John McPhee, Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
• Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
• Andy Hamilton, Pianos, Toys, Music, and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford
• Patrick Cowley, Mechanical Fantasy Box: The Homoerotic Journal of Patrick Cowley

movies:

• David Zellner & Nathan Zellner, Sasquatch Sunset
• Tom Tykwer, The Princess and the Warrior
• Ron Clements & John Musker, The Little Mermaid
• Irvin Kirshner, Never Say Never Again *

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd