Seasonal Book Action

I have A LOT of books next to my bed thanks to Christmas, a new project in research and the obvious bibliophilia... Here's this month's top ten:

The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr

Going Public by Boris Groys

The Resistable Demise of Michael Jackson edited by Mark Fisher

BFI Film Classics: Don't Look Now

Extreme Metaphors: Interviews of JG Ballard 1967-2008 

1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation by Charles Kaiser

Colin de Land, American Fine Arts by Dennis Balk

Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant

and I'm dipping back in again to the overwhelmingly inspirational Atlas of Transformation

Reading List

As ever I am feeding my bibliophilia with too many books - these are the current books that are piling up around my bed:

Confessions of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim, with a forward by Gore Vidal

Mike Kelley: 99,9998% Remaining 

How the World Works by Noam Chomsky

Anne Hardy (stunning catalogue from her solo show from the Vienna Secession)

Fruit Salad (from very good looking publisher Bronze Age Editions)

William E Jones (from the Inside the White Cube catalogue series - bought the Raphael Hefti too)

Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano

An attempt at exhauting a place in Paris by Georges Perec

(For past reading lists see here and here and here and here)

Reading List

I have a giant pile of books next to my bed at home (and under the bedside tables, on the 5 sets of shelves, in the cupboard, in piles in front of the shelves... you get the idea). You can read my past reading lists
here , and here, and here Here is my current shelf selection:

Peer Pressure: Essays on the Internet by an Artist on the Internet by Brad Troemel

Zona by Geoff Dyer

Women Artists at the Millennium ed by Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zehger

The World in Six Songs by Daniel Leviten

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon

In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists In Mexico and the United States by Illene Susan Fort and Tere Arcq

Go Human Not Ape by Francesco Spampinato

The Nine Eyes of Google Street View by Jon Rafman

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller

The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier

(Image 'Memento Mori' "To This Favour" by William Michael Harnett)

Reading List

My favourite magazine shop in Berlin Do You Read Me? compiles these rather amazing reading lists online. Its something I've attempted in the past so I feel its time to update. Aside from my own books and Twin, Dazed, AnOther and where I scribble:

Theft is Vision
Bob Nickas

The Coming Insurrection
The Invisible Committee

Complete Short Stories
JG Ballard

House
Yu Ogata and Ichiro Ogata Ono

Forced Entries
Jim Carroll

Imperial Bedrooms
Bret Easton Ellis

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
John Le Carre

Ministry of Fear
Graham Greene

Apartamento
Magazine, Interiors

Acne Paper
Magazine, Culture