Paul’s 2018 Reading List
The Company Car – C.J.Hribal
Robichaux – James Lee Burke
A Negro And An Ofay – Danny Gardner
The Futilitarians – Anne Gisleson
Way Down In Louisiana – Todd Mouton
Day In, Day Out – Hector Aguilar Camin
Revulsion:Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador – Horacio Castellanos Moya
Spy Of The First Person – Sam Shepard
Death In Veracruz – Hector Aguilar Camin
Tropic Death – Eric Walrond
Slumberland – Paul Beatty
Havana Libre – Robert Arrelano
Down To The River Unto The Sea – Walter Mosley
Raising The Dad – Tom Matthews
For You To See The Stars – Radney Foster
Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home And Abroad
-ed by Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow
As Lie Is To Grin – Simeon Marsalis
The Book Of Night Women – Marlon James
Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of An Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity-Edna M Rodriguez-Mangual
Claire DeWitt and The City Of The Dead – Sara Gran
New Year In Havana – Chanel Cleeton
King Zeno – Nathaniel Rich
Nightfall – David Goodis
White Tears – Hari Kunzru
Sing Unburied Sing – Jesmyn Ward
Beautiful Music – Michael Zadoorian
Abeng – Michelle Cliff
Salvage The Bones – Jesmyn West
New Year’s Eve/1929 – James T. Farrell
The Axeman – Ray Celestin
Men We Reaped – Jesmyn Ward
Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway- Sara Gran
Eclipse Alley – David Fulmer
The Linden Tree – Carlos Aira
The Iron Gate – David Fulmer
Streets Of No Return – David Goodis
Where the Line Bleeds – Jesmyn Ward
The Music Shop – Rachel Joyce
The Song Is You – Megan Abbot
My German Brother – Chico Buarque
American Histories – John Edgar Wideman
How To Love A Jamaican – Alexa Arthurs
Good Trouble-Joseph O’Neill
Soucouyant – David Chariandy
Sweet & Low – Nick White
Valmiki’s Daughter – Shani Mootoo
Bluebird Bluebird – Attica Locke
Nighthawks – Charles Johnson
Paul’s 2018 Reading List
The Company Car – C.J.Hribal
Robichaux – James Lee Burke
A Negro And An Ofay – Danny Gardner
The Futilitarians – Anne Gisleson
Way Down In Louisiana – Todd Mouton
Day In, Day Out – Hector Aguilar Camin
Revulsion:Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador – Horacio Castellanos Moya
Spy Of The First Person – Sam Shepard
Death In Veracruz – Hector Aguilar Camin
Tropic Death – Eric Walrond
Slumberland – Paul Beatty
Havana Libre – Robert Arrelano
Down To The River Unto The Sea – Walter Mosley
Raising The Dad – Tom Matthews
For You To See The Stars – Radney Foster
Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home And Abroad
-ed by Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow
As Lie Is To Grin – Simeon Marsalis
The Book Of Night Women – Marlon James
Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of An Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity-Edna M Rodriguez-Mangual
Claire DeWitt and The City Of The Dead – Sara Gran
New Year In Havana – Chanel Cleeton
King Zeno – Nathaniel Rich
Nightfall – David Goodis
White Tears – Hari Kunzru
Sing Unburied Sing – Jesmyn Ward
Beautiful Music – Michael Zadoorian
Abeng – Michelle Cliff
Salvage The Bones – Jesmyn West
New Year’s Eve/1929 – James T. Farrell
The Axeman – Ray Celestin
Men We Reaped – Jesmyn Ward
Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway- Sara Gran
Eclipse Alley – David Fulmer
The Linden Tree – Carlos Aira
The Iron Gate – David Fulmer
Streets Of No Return – David Goodis
Where the Line Bleeds – Jesmyn Ward
The Music Shop – Rachel Joyce
The Song Is You – Megan Abbot
My German Brother – Chico Buarque
American Histories – John Edgar Wideman
How To Love A Jamaican – Alexa Arthurs
Good Trouble-Joseph O’Neill
Soucouyant – David Chariandy
Sweet & Low – Nick White
Valmiki’s Daughter – Shani Mootoo
Bluebird Bluebird – Attica Locke
Nighthawks – Charles Johnson
145th Street – Walter Dean Myers
Love War Stories – Ivelisse Rodriguez
Ayiti – Roxane Gay
Lokotown – Cyprian Ekwensi
A Thousand Distant Radios – Woody Skinner
Love Interrupted – Reneilwe Malatji
West Of Sunset – Stewart O’Nan
Siren Song – Seymour Stein
Memphis Rent Party – Robert Gordon
John Woman – Walter Mosley
Small Country – Gael Faye
The Third Hotel – Laura Van Den Berg
The Traveling Feast – Rick Bass
Side Swipe – Chares Willesden
Manhattan Beach – Jenneifer Egan
Fruit Of The Drunken Tree – Ingrid Rojas Contreras
The World Beat – Gaylord Dold
Wild Wives – Charles Willesden
Turn On The Heat – Erle Stanley Gardner writing as A.A. Fair
After The Winter – Guadelupe Nettel
Maigret Enjoys Himself – George Simenon

Musical Favorites of 2018
Lonesome As A Shadow – Charley Crockett (Sons Od Davy/Thirty Tigers)
Orquesta Akokan – Orquesta Akokan (Daptone)
The Prodigal Son – Ry Cooder (Concord)
Whatever It Takes – The James Hunter Six (Daptone)
Call It Home Pts 1 and 2 – The California Honeydrops
The Tree Of Forgiveness – John Prine
Disques Debs International Vol.1 – (Air Caraibes/Strut)
Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis – Wild!,Wild!,Wild! (Bloodshot)
David Byrne – American Utopia