Books in Hell

Here’s the Books from the Life in Hell calendars mentioned earlier:


The Inferno of Dante Alighieri trans. Ciaran Carson
The Summer of Love by Debbie Drechsler
Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Yesterday Will Make You Cry by Chester Himes
Maakies by Tony Millionaire
Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine
“In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself” (essay) Wislawa Szymborska
Ghost Town by Robert Coover
a thick book by Charles Dickens
Tales of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Nowhere Comics by Debbie Dreschler
something by James Thurber
short story by Bernard Malamud
Cartesian Sonata by William Gass
latest from Edna O’Brien
Norwegian folktales
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
latest Eightball comic by Daniel Clowes
“Raymond” comic book by David Boswell
The Wellspring by Sharon Olds
An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich
The Mafia, The CIA and George Bush by Peter Bruston
Lynda Barry’s latest
Angry Women (Re/Search 13)
The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
The Deer Park by Norman Mailer
Knots by R.D. Laing
Eightball by Daniel Clowes
The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber
something by Mark Twain
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Most of S.J. Perelman by S.J. Perelman
I Never Liked You by Chester Brown
The Tunnel by William Gass
Sex, Lies and Stereotypes by Julianne Malveaux
The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Return of the Repressed by John Fahey
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Philosopher or Dog? Machado De Assis
Slutburger by Mary Fleener
A Good Baby by Leon Rooke
Strange Things Sometimes Stil Happen ed. Angela Carter
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
The Magic of Blood by Dagobert Gilb
Lantern Slides by Edna O’Brien
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
After Many a Summer by Aldous Huxley
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
anything by bell hooks
Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
What Mad Universe? by Frederic Brown
Islandia by August Tappan Wright
Growing Up in Tier 3000 by Felix C. Gottschalk
Eleutheria by Samuel Beckett
Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
The Funhouse by Benjamin Appel
Nixon’s Piano by Kenneth O’Reilly
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle
3 Lives by Gertrude Stein
Who Will Tell the People by William Greider
Hate by Peter Bagge
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Lonely Crusade by Chester Himes
any Damon Runyon stories
Et Tu Babe by Mark Leyner
The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute
The Benchley Roundup by Robert Benchley
Backlash by Susan Faludi
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen’s
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
If You Love This Planet by Helen Caldicott
Art Attack: The Midnight Politics of a Guerrilla Artist by Robbie Conal
Before Columbus Fiction Anthology
Pandora’s Box by G.W. Pabst
The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos
The Clothes Have No Emperor by Paul Slansky
The People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle