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Great finds! I wanted to know that I picked up my first ever book of Ashberry's poetry just the other day, based at least partly on your enthusiasm for him in your videos. I'm very much looking forward to diving in.

I have that edition of Bishop's poetry and the fiction collection! To me, Bishop could walk on water. And I loved the stories. Long live Ms. Bishop!

Peter Mendelsund has the best modern covers! When I was working at a bookshop it became a joke among the booksellers that if there was a cover we all liked, we'd flip it over and see, oh, yep, another Mendelsund.

I've been behind on these shelf tours!! To the point that these shelves are now anachronistic. But I'm back in the saddle. Excited to make my way through your entire collection!

Another excellent library tour instalment! I've got the LOA edition of Elizabeth Bishop's prose & poetry, which is excellent.

What are your favourite books..??

What will happens to all these books when you die?

"Vox" is amazing. I also really like Nicholson Baker, and "Vox" is incredible. So is "The Everlasting Story of Nory."

A few years back I read Joe Gould's Teeth and enjoyed it. Unfortunately, a lot of Gould's behavior that didn't make it into Mitchell's book is on display in Lipore's account. Joe had boundary issues, to be kind.

Your shelf tours are art… I can listen to you talk about books all day long.

Another excellent shelf tour! Thanks for sharing - looks like I need to try some of Nicholson Baker's works!

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is extraordinary

Please record a video for us about paper books, and do you read digital books?

I love that you’ve been uploading so much. Great books, great channel.

I loved the idea of poetry as "Showing your work" when you go to a place. You asked for recommendations from the authors in your copy of "Perspectives 1950: Italian Issue," and there's a bunch in there I am not familiar with, but Natalia Ginzberg is a very good novelist; also I have one book by Eugenio Montale from New Directions simply titled "New Poems," and it is a paperbook from 1976 and it includes an essay from the the legendary F.R. Leavis. As for Calvino: I personally started with "Castle of Crossed Destinies".

Do you speak any languages other than English? Another good video btw.

shout out louisville

Would definitely be great to see a longer form video focused on those two LOA volumes - another great shelf tour, thanks for sharing!!

Nice Ashberry collection and yes, please do make s consult the coin oracle series.

Just discovered the channel hours ago. Was doing a marathon of all the shelf tours. I thought I was at the end. This pops up five minutes after I was done with the last. What luck. I am pleased.

I really love LOA editions (though hard to come by, cheaply, in the UK): great video as always! Might have binged all of your shelf tours...😅

bro what happened to ur hand

You seem highly intelligent and competent. alas my interests are with nonfiction though I will subscribe and check to see what you’re reading from time to time to add some books to my list of things to read. Have a pleasant day 😃

Maybe you’ve explained it before, but what do you mean when you say collage poem?

Persuasion is my favorite Austen novel, along with Emma. You should like it. Winesburg, Ohio may have been the first story collection I read. When I finished, I realized I'd just read about my neighborhood! And the orange spine Graham Greene paperbacks! The only way to read him! Seeing what others books people have has interested me, so more shelves.

This is the first time my reading and skateboarding obsession cross pollinated on youtube. Do you skate too? I recall you're also a musician/jazz fan? Three-way cross over.

walked down to the gas station and bought a chocolate donut and a purple monster energy and put this on the TV... happy fourth of july

I also have the original paperback of "McGlue". I picked it up when it came out because I had been following her short story output in literary magazines, and had also subscribed to Fence when it first started up its quarterly. I picked up "McGlue" the day it came out, and have followed Moshfegh's novels ever since, but "McGlue" is without question her best book. My first Billy Collins was the volume "Ballistics" and I really liked it; I especially thought the poem "Tension" was clever . . . you make me want to upload a reading of it. Does Billy Collins fulfill my aesthetic hunger fully the way more ambitious poets do? Not usually: they're all very short, not terribly dense, nor verbose. But Collins is very skilled in the craft-oriented mindset. And Many of his volumes are well-conceived, and most of his poems are thoroughly enjoyable.

James Thurber's memoir made me urinate, publicly embarrassing me only in the eyes of those who had no idea what I was reading.

I also loved Eightball. Growing up, I was less interested in superhero comics and far more interested in books like Eightball and Minimum Wage and the books of Peter Bagge. Have you ever read "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" by Roz Chast? That's one of my favorite graphic novels. Tristram Shandy is hilarious. What a weird, weird book. A good friend of mine keeps recommending "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" to me. She's super into "Dead Stuff" as she likes to say, and knows I really like memoirs. I'll take her up on it at some point. "A Mercy" is very good Morrison novel. I did not know we are outliers in that regard. I know that Fran Leibowitz really likes it as well. I think Song of Solomon and Sula are tied for me, but it seems we basically rank the late great Morrison in the same order.

"Krapp's Last Tape" was my first Beckett. I was a teenager. I loved it. Tobias Smollet's translation of "Don Quixote" is the one I first read as a kid and is the one I am most attached to; I first read it in a B&N paperback and it introduced me to Gustave Dore's illustrations. I read Putnam's last year and have never laughed so hard. Putnam's is very good.

S of S , Another Day of Life (about the Angolan civil war), and The Emperor (the overthrow of Halie Selassie) are quirky and revealing. John O'Hara was big up to the 1960s. He wrote about unhappy rich people. Then Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, and Tom Wolfe happened. His stories are supposed to be good.

I have read a bunch of Ernie Ernaux, but I have not read "The Years". The first one I read by Ernaux was "A Woman's Story."

im so jealous of your penguin gaddis, love that cover so much

another solid vid

Stumbled across your channel and adore your passions for books and reading. Also Wittgenstein's Mistress is really good.

your videos make me want to spend the entirety of my days reading

love how much you’ve been uploading i eat your videos up

Leafy Concern who knows why this may be but your booktube videos are the only 30+ minute videos on TH-cam that I ever watch the entirety of

I'd never heard of Dybek before watching this. That poem "Vigil" is something else

I don't remember who I sent this essay to

You have the same edition of Invisible Man as I had in college! I can recall how thrilled I was to finally read that novel! Read your DeFoe! Did you like Gilead? I read Housekeeping last year and I recommend it! DeQiuncey was a damn genius!

Wittgenstein’s Mistress is pretty good. Definitely keep that older copy - Dalkey’s new edition has so many typos that it’s almost unreadable.

I like this sitting in the chair and pulling books out thing you’ve got going - reminds me of Paperbird’s bookshelf tour

Delicious shelves

I’m really enjoying these shelf tours.

Loveeee this videos. I'm still not sure where to start with Simic though. Because of you, I started reading ashbery and regardless of how little I understand, I still love the experience of reading his poems aloud

Your enthusiasm for literature is contagious

🫧 just read THE GLASS BUBBLES thanks to this post. i am filled & fulfilled , with a jagged smile. thanks🙏🏾

Yes, Dazai will make you sad. That's how you know it's literature. The characters in his fiction are a mess, he himself redefined "trainwreck". But his novels, short stories, and autobiographical essays are worth it.