| Music | Joe Henry, The Negro Problem, Stew, Josh Ritter, Pernice Brothers, Michael Penn, The Go-Betweens, The Chills, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, The Mekons, Bob Dylan, Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk, David Mead, Greg Brown, Bill Morrissey, John Wesley Harding, Jon Brion, The Decemberists, Robyn Hitchcock, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Wilco, Bottle Rockets, Billy Bragg, Patty Griffin, Lucinda Williams, Ted Leo, Hem, Van Morrison, Destroyer, Pavement, Mountain Goats, The Jazz Butcher, Martin Newell, Cleaners from Venus, Weakerthans, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, Mason Jennings, Kirsty MacColl, Game Theory, Loud Family, Richard Thompson, Iron & Wine, Old 97s, Tom Waits | | Books | William Gaddis - The Recognitions, JR, A Frolic of His Own;
William Gass - The Tunnel, On Being Blue, A Temple of Texts, Reading Rilke;
Walter Abish - Eclipse Fever;
Evan Dara - The Lost Scrapbook;
David Markson - Wittgenstein's Mistress, This is Not a Novel, Reader's Block, (they're all worthy);
Flaubert - Sentimental Education, Madame Bovary, Letters;
Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot;
Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy;
Alexander Cockburn - The Golden Age is in Us
| | Heroes | William Gaddis, William Gass, Joe Henry, Kirsty MacColl, David Markson, Chris Eigeman |
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