Tag: Lists

1. Atwood
2. Borges
3. Calvino
4. Dickinson
5. Emerson
6. Faulkner
7. Gombrowicz
8. Hawthorne
9. Ibsen
10. Joyce
11. Kafka
12. Lish
13. Melville
14. Nin
15. O’Brien
16. Poe
17. Queneau
18. Roth
19. Sebald
20. Twain
21. Updike
22. Vonnegut
23. Walser
24. Xenophon
25. Yeats
26. Zola

1. Moby-Dick
2. Mosses from an Old Manse
3. Emily Dickinson (oeuvre)
4. Go Down, Moses
5. J R
6. Huckleberry Finn
7. Invisible Man
8. Blood Meridian
9. Leaves of Grass
10. The Scarlet Letter
11. A Mercy
12. Grapes of Wrath
13. Death Comes for the Archbishop
14. Underworld
15. The Pale King

1. “Made in America”
2. “Pine Barrens”
3. “College”
4. “The Test Dream”
5. “Whoever Did This”
6. “Long Term Parking”
7. “Kennedy and Heidi”
8. “Mayham”
9. “Rat Pack”
10. “Whitecaps”

 

 

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Howl’s Moving Castle
3. Wild at Heart
4. Zardoz
5. Return to Oz
6. Oz the Great and Powerful
7. The Wiz

1. V., mostly on a beach in Ko Lanta.
2. The Road, in the maternity ward after my daughter was born.
3. Infinite Jest, late at night after I first moved to Tokyo. And then lugging it onto the train.
4. Un Bel Morir, in the emergency room all night, my mother’s fever so high.
5. As I Lay Dying, another hospital.
6. 2666. On a plane leaving San Francisco. And then compulsively every night for a month.
7. Angels, on a Florida beach.
8. Cat’s Cradle, on a houseboat, on a river.
9. The Once and Future King, in the back of a rented car that was zooming across the South Island of NZ, my parents repeatedly imploring me to just look up please.
10.  Ulysses, on the old gold velour couch I sometimes still miss, on my roommate’s Ritalin, comprehending next to nothing. And then a decade later, with real joy.

1. Carlos Castaneda
2. Tom Robbins
3. Paulo Coelho
4. John Irving
5. Tom Wolfe
6. Bret Easton Ellis
7. James McInerney
8. Mark Leyner
9. Miranda July
10. Tao Lin

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Blue Velvet
3. Inland Empire 
4. Eraserhead
5. The Elephant Man
6. The Straight Story 
7. Dune
8. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 
9. Wild at Heart
10. Lost Highway 

1. Spirited Away
2. Ponyo
3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. Howl’s Moving Castle
6. Kiki’s Delivery Service
7. Porco Rosso
8. Princess Mononoke
9. Castle in the Sky

1. Barry Lyndon
2. Paths of Glory
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. The Shining
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Spartacus
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. Lolita

 

 

1. Goodfellas
2. The King of Comedy
3. Taxi Driver
4. Casino
5. Mean Streets
6. Raging Bull
7. After Hours
8. The Last Temptation of Christ
9. Shutter Island
10. Gangs of New York
11. The Age of Innocence
12. Cape Fear
13. Bringing Out the Dead
14. Kundun
15. The Departed
16. The Aviator
17. The Color of Money

1. Haruki Marukami
2. Joyce Carol Oates
3. Philip Roth
4. John Updike
5. Saul Bellow
6. Paul Bowles
7. Edith Wharton

1. Superman character design reboot — everything’s exactly the same, only Superman now has small orange-feathered wings growing out of his neck. Clark Kent wears a permanent neck brace.
   
2. Stunning new issue reveals Batman won’t eat broccoli.
3. Special Aquaman appearance in Little Mermaid reboot in which Aquaman murders Scuttle.
4. Martian Manhunter releases dope mixtape (under his alias J’onn J’onzz); Pitchfork gives it a 6.2.
5. Wonder Woman sends back her sarapatel — “Sorry, just doesn’t taste authentic.”
6. Flash is the subject of a shortlived 1990s TV show remembered fondly by exactly no one. Danny Elfman composes the score.
7. Green Lantern stalks former high school girlfriend on Facebook; spends hours watching locomotive trains on YouTube; argues frequently with neighbors; has occasional thoughts about suicide.

1. Reboot of True Blood as a half-hour sitcom focused on Merlotte’s; Lafayette is the star, that red headed chick is his sidekick, and Sookie is nowhere in sight.

2. Reboot/sequel of Battlestar Galactica that picks up right where the second reboot ended, in modern-day New York City. No sci-fi elements. The series is simply a dull soap opera.

3. Girls/Game of Thrones mashup; the Khaleesi sends her dragons to eat privileged white people in Brooklyn. The series is over in about 4 minutes.

4. Sequel to The Wire that takes place entirely in your imagination; you occasionally muddle key details.

5. Reboot of Mad Men as insufferable single-camera faux documentary 30 minute sitcom featuring direct-to-camera interviews, etc.

6. A fourth season of Bored to Death; each episode is 8 minutes long and embedded as a series of “commercial breaks” into random late-night infomercials.

7. Reboot of Family Ties as a serious one hour drama / secret mash-up with Batttlestar Galactica (Dad Keaton begins to suspect that Alex is a cylcon—or is he a cylon himself?!).

8. American version of Downton Abbey that lasts nine seasons longer than the British version.

9. Nine hour miniseries sequel to Xena: Warrior Princess.

10. Reboot of The Sopranos in the style of Real Housewives of New Jersey.

11. Reboot of Freaks and Geeks that gets canceled after one season but no one from the show moves on to any measure of fame or success.

12. Reboot of Seinfeld as a series of dramatic monologues performed by subterranean survivors of some unnameable apocalypse.

13. Reboot of Breaking Bad without cancer, meth, crime plots. Series is about a high school teacher and his family.

14. Reboot of Entourage as a first-person shooter video game where players can repeatedly execute the characters.

15. A fourth season of Deadwood.

1. The part where Ahab says he’d strike at the sun if it insulted him.
2. The fight at Ennet halfway house.
3. When Bloom stands up to the cyclops.
4. Judge Holden directing the men to make gunpowder.
5. Pretty much all of “The Bear.”
6. When Raskolnikov does the second murder.
7. Janie kills Teacake.
8. The chapter where Netley drives Gull around London and Gull extemporizes a lecture on history and crime.
9. Those last twenty pages of Correction.
10. Bast yelling in anger at little JR.
11. That other underground man, the invisible one, escaping electroshock experiments in the hospital.
12. Lear and his dead daughter Cordelia.