Lucia Berlin reads Unmanageable (6:23)
https://soundcloud.com/readlucia/lucia-berlin-unmanageable
Ron Padgett reads June 17, 1942 (4:18)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/disconnected/Disconnected_36_padgett.mp3
Lorine Niedecker reads Thomas Jefferson (5:10)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Niedecker/Niedecker-Lorine_01_Thomas-Jefferson_Factory-School-Archive_11-1970.mp3
Jim Carroll reads from The Basketball Diaries: Age 13, 1965 (3:43)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/disconnected/Disconnected_24_carroll.mp3
Jean Baudrillard recites his poetry (8:07)
backed up by an all star band featuring Tom Watson, Mike Kelley, George Hurley, Lynn Johnston, Dave Muller and Amy Stoll
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/baudrillard_jean/suicide_moi/Baudrillard-Jean_Chance-Band_Suicide-Moi_02.mp3
Will Alexander reads Compound Hibernation (2:22)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Alexander-Will/Alexander-Will_04_Compound-Hibernation_BPC-Segue_3-17-07.mp3
Helen Adam sings Cheerless Junkie Song (2:45)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/corpse/Corpse_08_adam.mp3
Sylvia Plath reads Daddy (3:43)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/corrupt/Totally-Corrupt_04_plath.mp3
Pierre Guyotat reads from Progenitures (6:14)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/guyotat_pierre/Progenitures/Guyotat-Pierre_p11.mp3
Ted Berrigan reads The Sonnets (1:13:14)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Berrigan/Sonnets-Singles/Berrigan-Ted_The-Sonnets-without-introduction_New-Langton_1981.mp3
Joe Brainard reads from I Remember (4:03)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/dial/The-Dial-A-Poem-Poets_17_brainard.mp3
Stewart Home reads William Burroughs In Hell (0:39)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Home/Cyber-Sadism/Home-Stewart_Cyber-Sadism_11-William-Burroughs-In-Hell.mp3
Georges Perec reads TENTATIVE DE DESCRIPTION DE CHOSES VUES AU CARREFOUR MABILLON LE 19 MAI 1978 (A. C. R.) (8:15)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/perec_georges/interviews/3/Perec-Georges_Text-Interviews_02-Tentative-de-descripion..mp3
Kathy Acker reads Second Whore Song (3:29)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Acker/Pussy/Acker-Kathy_02_Second-Whore-Song_Pussy_1994.mp3
Renee Gladman reads from The Ravickians (12:13)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Gladman/San-Diego-02-15-2012/The-Ravickians.mp3
Taylor Mead reads I Was in a Drugstore (3:33)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/corrupt/Totally-Corrupt_21_mead.mp3
Alain Robbe-Grillet reads from Jealousy (10:07)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/aspen/mp3/robbeGrillet.mp3
Susan Sontag reads from Debriefing (17:35)
https://www.ubu.com/media/sound/sontag_susan/debriefing/Sontag-Susan_01_Debriefing_1979.mp3
Gertrude Stein reads How She Bowed To Her Brother (2:18)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Stein/Stein-Gertrude_She-Bowed-to-Her-Brother.MP3
Lydia Davis reads A Mown Lawn (1:41)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Davis-L/4-25-17/Davis_Lydia_A-Mown-Lawn_KWH-UPenn_4-25-2017.mp3
James Schuyler reads Korean Mums (2:09)
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Schuyler/Schuyler-Tapes/92-Street-Y-11-23-89/Schuyler-James_05_Korean-Mums_Reading-at-92nd-Street-Y_11-23-89.mp3
Scott McClanahan reads Jenny Sugar (8:16)
https://soundcloud.com/bomb-magazine/scott-mcclanahan-reading-at
Vladimir Nabokov reads from Lolita (25:34)
https://soundcloud.com/oobleckboy/nabokov-reading-lolita-part
Joy Williams reads The Last Generation (31:42)
https://www.kwls.org/audio/joy_williams_1989_the_last_gen/
Maggie Nelson reads The Mute Story of November and The Halo Over the Hospital (15:10)
https://www.kwls.org/audio/maggie_nelson_2008/
Benjamin Weissman reads Hitler Ski Story (13:09)
https://www.ubu.com/sound/weismann.html
Darius James reads from Negrophobia (23:49)
https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter/bundles/238448
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p.s. Hey. ** Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Hi, Lucas! Thank you about the Akerman post. I would love to read your book. Thanks very, very much, that’s very generous of you. My email is: denniscooper72@outlook.com. I greatly look forward to it. Take care. ** T, Hi, T! The Furry world seems really interesting. I only haven’t plunged into it because it seems like such a lucrative i.e. very distracting rabbit hole. Guro interests me due to my basically lifelong interest in how to how to represent knee-jerk shocking things while circumventing the shock, and Guro artists are always looking for that perfect fine line, and, yeah, so am I, or at least I used to be on that hunt. Since we both seem to have gotten through Monday okay, let’s make standing (or sleeping) tall at dawn tomorrow our next goal, what do you say? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. Kristen did write me a quick email to say thanks to me and to all of you guys for enjoying her show (again). You can’t order take-out/in? English cuisine, yeeks. That would leave me with a diet of mostly chips and scones, I guess. Counting the minutes, pal. ** Bill, I’m not a big Pasolini guy, as you know, but I do remember ‘Medea’ being pretty tops. The big day is almost shockingly soon. Really glad you liked the David Nutt. Good characterisation there. Me too. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Awesome. I’ve always blogged during the hardcore Halloween season and maxed it out with posts, so it’s going to be weird to be offline for a big part of it, if, that is, plans pan out. Speaking of, the big problem is, of course, money. It turns out we don’t in fact have enough to make the film, and we have to raise a little more, which is very depressing since the fundraising was such a nightmare. So, uggggh. Zac and I need to go to LA sometime around the end of this month. We’re still figuring out exactly when. Well, you survived, and you sound like you, so whew. And hopefully no one else you know well will get married for a long, long time. I’ll get the Masters book. Great! Your love is yesterday would be a lifesaver. Also, my laptop is acting weird like it might be dying, so I have to ask love to please cure it today, thanking him in advance, G. ** Travis (fka Cal), Thanks, Travis. I’m doing reasonably well, and how about you, chum? ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff! That Shangri-Las collection is really the only great, comprehensive one. There must be rights issues or something. Is ‘Kid Marine’ oop? Wow, I’m surprised, if so. It’s spectacular. Pollard’s greatest solo work, which is saying something. ‘Illuminations’ is utterly unique in BSM’s work. The album I chose is just before it when she was working in a folk mode. She moved away from that starting with ‘Illuminations’, sort of like Donovan did starting with ‘Sunshine Superman’. Anyway, ‘Little Wheel …’ is really superb. I honestly love all of Aki Onda’s recordings. I don’t think you can go wrong with him. If you see this before you’re off to the writers retreat, I hope you have the most amazing internal avalanche. Enjoy every second. ** Misanthrope, Yes, never look up your symptoms on the internet, or not if you have a big imagination that is prone to seek the most stressful diagnosis. David seems kind of doomed or something. It’s very sad. ** Dom Lyne, Hi, Dom! Good to see you, buddy! Oh, wow, about you starting the treatment. Great, if complicated, that it’s already triggering important revelations, though. Especially about and encouraging of your writing. Speaking as someone who had the death of someone very close to me change my writing forever, I really hear you. Awesome about the bulldog. And French even! You sound good, man, you do. Oh, I’m alright. Everything’s about getting to the point where Zac and I can make our new film, and it’s hellish off and on right now, but the payoff will be worth it. But, yeah, I’m good. Really, really happy that summer is over. Love, me. ** Damien Ark, No big on time. Time flows or whatever. Wow, October?! That’s, like, almost now! Who’s publishing it? What’s the story? That’s super great news, maestro! ** Okay. I thought it would be nice to ask you to listen to some excellent authors read their works, so I’m hoping you’ll pick one or two or more and kick back or lean forward or whatever your preferred position is and take in the blog in through your ears today. Simple as that. See you tomorrow.
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