July 2012

Books:
1) Fifth Head of Cerberus Gene Wolfe
2) Big Fish Daniel Wallace
3) Little, Big John Crowley


Movies Watched June/July (not in order):
Dazed and Confused Richard Linklater
The Apartment Billy Wilder
Last Days of Disco Whit Stillman
Metropolitan Whit Stillman
Eastern Promises David Cronenberg
Videodrome  David Cronenberg
Dead Ringers David Cronenberg
A History of Violence David Cronenberg
The Brood David Cronenberg
Days of Heaven Terrance Malick
Some Like it Hot Billy Wilder
The Artist Michel Hazanavicius
Being John Malkovich Spike Jonze
Miller's Crossing Joel and Ethan Coen
Melancholia Lars Von Trier
Under the Volcano John Huston
The Avengers Joss Whedon
The Incredible Hulk Louis Leterrier
Moonrise Kingdom (2x) Wes Anderson
Seeking a Friend For the End of the World Lorene Scafaria
Cool Hand Luke Stuart Rosenberg
M. Hulot's Holiday Jaques Tati
Mon Oncle Jaques Tati
Cabin in the Woods Drew Goddard
God Bless America Bobcat Goldwaithe
Repo Man Alex Cox
Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry Donald Brittain
Be Kind Rewind Michel Gondry
Brave Pixar (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell)
Waitress Adrienne Shelly
The Lady Eve Preston Sturges
The Magician Ingmar Bergman 
My Dinner With Andre Luis Malle
Branded to Kill Seijun Suzuki
Citizen Kane Orson Welles
My Man Godfrey Gregory La Cava
Traffic Stephen Soderburgh
Carnival of Souls Herk Harvey 
Scenes From a Marriage (feature film version) Ingmar Bergman
The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir 
Stray Dog Akira Kurosawa
Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa
Ran Akira Kurosawa
Flowers of St. Francis Roberto Rossellini
Unfaithfully Yours Preston Sturges
3:10 to Yuma Delmer Daves
Beat The Devil John Huston
Yi Yi Edward Yang
Army of Shadows Jean Pierre Melville
Blue  Krzysztof Kieslowski
Observe and Report Jody Hill
Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn 
Dinner at 8 George Kukor
Day at the Races Marx Brothers
M. Fritz Lang
Dark Knight Rises Christopher Nolan
The Iron Giant Brad Bird
Greenberg Noah Baumbach
Bringing Out the Dead Martin Scorsese

June 2012

1) Drawn and Quartered: a History of American Political Cartoons Stephen Hess
2) I Am Legend Richard Matheson
3) James Buchanan Jean H Baker
4) Godric Frederick Buechner
5) Bossypants Tina Fey

May 2012

1) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
2) Fledgeling Octavia Butler 
3) The Philosophy of Existentialism Gabriel Marcel
4) Selected Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay
5) Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare
6) The Sunflower Simon Wiesenthal
7) Valdez is Coming Elmore Leonard
8) Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills Roy Nichols
9) Misery Stephen King
10) The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
11) The Irony of American History Reinhold Niebuhr

April 2012

1) Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
2) Selected Poems Wendell Berry
3) Hamlet Shakespeare
4) Beloved Toni Morrison
5) The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore Elbert B. Smith
6) A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor
7) Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre Walter Kaufman
8) A Bad Idea I'm About To Do Chris Gethard

March 2012

1) The Life of William Henry Harrison Isaac Rand Jackson
2) The Cambridge Companion to Auden Ed. Stan Smith
3) Wittgenstein's Poker David Edmonds
4) To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis
5) The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
6) John Tyler, the Accidental President Edward Crapol
7) Polk Walter Borneman
8) Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community Wendell Berry
9) The Man Who Was Thursday GK Chesterton

February 2012

1) The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
2) Doomsday Book Connie Willis
3) Raylan Elmore Leonard
4) The Ecstasy of Influence Jonathan Lethem
5) The Devil in a Forest Gene Wolfe
6) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
7) The Passion of the Western Mind Richard Tarnas
8) Poems (1930) WH Auden
9) Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics Joel Silbey

January 2012

1) Gold Coast Elmore Leonard
2) Animal Farm George Orwell
3) This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
4) The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick
5) American Lion Jon Meacham
6) Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
7) Edward Hopper Ivo Kranzfelder