Reading List 1999

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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