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LUDIC LOG

Inspired by my pal Jeff, here's my end-of-the-year booklist. These are some of the books that I read and enjoyed in 2002, and I'm posting them here in hopes that some of you might read and enjoy them someday too.

FICTION

American Tabloid, James Ellroy

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace

Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

England Made Me, Graham Greene

Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

The Long Firm, Jake Arnott

The New Life, Orhan Pamuk

Repetition, Peter Handke

You Bright and Risen Angels, William T. Vollman

NON-FICTION

Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940, Roland Marchand

Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. Eddie Muller

Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer, Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.)

The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, Jean-Francois Lyotard

Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal, John M. MacGregor

The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950-1951, I.F. Stone

My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King, Reymundo Sanchez

The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America, Gus Russo

The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Vol. 3, Bruce Lee

The War Years: A Global History of the Second World War, Loyd E. Lee

OTHER

Alec: How to Be an Artist and Alec: The King Canute Crowd, Eddie Cambell

ego trip's Big Book of Racism, Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Jefferson Mao, Gabriel Alvarez & Brent Rollins

Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau

The Golem's Mighty Swing, James Sturm

The Inhumans, Paul Jenkins (writer) & Jae Lee (artist)

Powers, Brian Michael Bendis (writer) & Michael Avon Oeming (artist)

Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms, Philip Ducey & David Jauss (eds.)

Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis (writer) & Darick Robertson (artist)

Wisconsin Death Trip, Michael Lesy

A Writer's Diary, Fyodor Dostoievsky