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This year, I consumed a hair over 50 pieces of literature — I have that dropped-on-my-head-as-a-baby condition where I must finish everything I start, no matter how horrible I find it to be. Spitters are quitters sort of thing. Happy New Year :-)
Theater
Lysistrata & other plays, Aristophanes Four Plays, Aristophanes Tartuffe, Moliere Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Moliere Les Précieuses ridicules, Moliere Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Joe Orton ** Loot, Joe Orton What the Butler Saw, Joe Orton The Good and Faithful Servant, Joe Orton ** The Complete Plays, Joe Orton Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Tony Kushner A Bright Room Called Day, Tony Kushner The Bear, Anton Chekhov The Marriage Proposal, Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov Curse of the Starving Class, Sam Shepard Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams Joe Turner's Come and Gone, August Wilson American TET, Lydia Stryk Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Dario Fo
Novels
I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman Severance, Ling Ma How to Be Both, Ali Smith Margo's Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe Come Closer, Sara Gran Killing Stella, Marlen Haushofer ** The Ginny Suite, Stacy Skolnik Ice, Anna Kavan The Employees, Olga Ravn A Strange Adventure, Eva Forest We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter The Vet's Daughter, Barbara Comyns ** The Wax Child, Olga Ravn ** A Day with the Cow Column in 1843, Jesse Applegate Travesty, John Hawkes Inside Daisy Clover, Gavin Lambert ** To Smithereens, Rosalyn Drexler It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, Anne de Marcken Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Poetry + Short Story Collections
An Authentic Life, Jennifer Chang Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel ** Half in Love, Maile Meloy The Houseguest, Amparo Davila Warm Worlds and Otherwise, James Tiptree ** Annoying Diabetic Bitch, Sharon Mesmer Weird Fucks, Lynne Tillman ***** All The Lights, Clemens Meyer
Other
Chinatown and The Last Detail, Robert Towne The Archetypal Artist, Mary Antonia Wood The Hollow Half, Sarah Aziza
Great list. I loved Ice by Anna Kavan!
Love that Maile Meloy book and been on the hunt for that Sharon Mesmer book too. May have to request it through ILL. Happy New Year to you; thanks for all the killer recommendations/writing!