Summary:
1999 was full of changes. I had finished off the masters program in a year and a half. I had committed to working at a music camp over the summer where I consumed the entire David Foster Wallace collection. I also spent some time traveling and finally had to make a career decision. Although I was accepted into a PhD program, I couldn’t come up with the funds, so into IT I went. Since I had no real experience, I spent my time preparing for certification exams and finally got my first real job.
Reading List 1999
- Riven Rock - T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Poetics of Music - Igor Stravinsky
- Dubliners - James Joyce
- Sonora - John Zorn
- Gates of Eden - Ethan Coen
- Marbourn Stork Nightmare - Irvine Welch
- Ambient - Jack Womack
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- The World According to Garp - John Irving
- The Ginger Man - J. P. Donleary
- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
- Filth - Irvine Welsch
- Girl with Curious Hair - David Foster Wallace
- Grey Area - Will Self
- A Supposidly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
- Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
- Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace
- Naked - David Sedaris
- Invention of Solitude - Paul Auster
- The New York Triology - Paul Auster
- Going Native - Stephan Wright
- About a Boy - Nick Hornby
- The Willow Tree - Hubert Selby Jr.
- The Quantitive Theory of Insanity - Will Self
- Whores for Gloria - WIlliam T. Vollman
- It’s a Slippery Slope - Spalding Gray
- Jaco - Bill Milkowski
- The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones
- Civilwarland in Bad Decline - George Saunders
- Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys - Will Self
- The Wonders of the Invisible World - David Gates
- All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
- Faster - James Gleick
- I Smell Ester Williams - Mark Leyner
- The Acid House - Irvine Welsch
- Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine - Thom Jones
- The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
- The Pattern on the Stone - Daniel Hillis