"Like Son" and "Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties" by Felicia Luna Lemus; "American Pastoral," "Portnoy's Complaint," "Operation Shylock" and "The Facts" by Philip Roth; "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro; "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick; "Poetics" by Aristotle; "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf; "Jesus' Son" by Denis Johnson; "One Hundred Years of Solitutde" and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; "Lolita" by Nabokov; "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon; "Libra" by Don DeLillo; "Kiss of the Spider Woman" by Manuel Puig; "The Passion According to G.H." by Clarice Lispector; "Death Comes for the Archbishop" by Willa Cather; "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann; "Before Night Falls" by Renaldo Arenas; "The Periodic Tables" by Primo Levi; "Coming Through Slaughter" by Michael Ondaatje; "Valencia" by Michelle Tea; "Civilwarland in Bad Decline" by George Saunders; "The Long Night of White Chickens" by Francisco Goldman; "Break it Down" by Lydia Davis; "From Pieces to Weight" by 50-Cent; "Martin Dressler" by Steven Millhauser; "Helter Skelter" by Vincent Bugliosi; "The 27th City" and "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen; "A Home at the End of the World" by Michael Cunningham; "Paradise Lost" by Milton; "Clarissa" by Richardson; "Moll Flanders" by DaFoe; "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee; "The Fuck-Up" by Arthur Nersesian; "Maus" by Art Spiegelman; "Gender Outlaw" & "My Gender Workbook" by Kate Bornstein; "Chang and Eng" by Darin Strauss; "A Fine Place" by Nicholas Montemarano; "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon; "Frankenstein" by Shelley; "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson; "The Sleeping Father" by Matthew Sharpe, "Mitz" and "The Last of Her Kind" by Sigrid Nunez; "Stiff" by Mary Roach; "The Black Dahlia Avenger" by I don't know, that guy; "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson; "The Sluts" by Dennis Cooper; "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families" by Philip Gourevitch; "Pol Pot" by Philip Short; "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell; "Edinburgh" by Alexander Chee; "Headless" by Benjamin Weissman; "Can't Stop Won't Stop" by Jeff Chang; "Swimming to Cambodia" by Spalding Gray, "Trance" by Christopher Sorrentino, "The Story of Junk" by Linda Yablonski, "I Am Not Myself These Days" by Josh Kilmer-Purcell, "The White Album" by Joan Didion, "Genealogy" by Maud Casey; "Sorry, Tree" by Eileen Myles; "Surrender!" by Matt Greene, fwd by Benjamin Weissman; and in the interest of self-flagellation, I mean promotion: "Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes" and "Some of the Parts" by T Cooper, and "A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing" edited by T Cooper & Adam Mansbach. Yo.
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER in hardcover &
paperback
Selected Best Book of the Year (by The Austin Chronicle & The Believer)
Lipshitz 6 now available for DOWNLOAD on iTunes (Search audiobooks by title)
* * * "A glorious identity-bending, multigenerational epic." --Time Out New York
"Unusual and avowedly postmodern... a compelling story."
--The New York Times
"Cooper takes postmodern literature to a new pinnacle with this second novel, putting Cooper on par with an elite group of authors like Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers, and Jonathan Safran Foer." --Bitch Magazine
"Brilliant." --Texas Monthly
"Stunning... This is not another generic everyday family saga, not when it starts in the Russian pogroms, jogs past Charles Lindbergh, and closes with a guy who impersonates rapper Eminem at bar mitzvahs."
--Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Dolly was an excellent choice (of many), unexpected, but excellent. Backwoods Barbie is a gem as well.
Prepositions: does anyone care anymore? My girlfriend is always trying to correct me, and I just don't think it matters, especially in casual speech. What say T?
