{"id":3354,"date":"2009-02-04T07:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2009-02-24T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T23:36:07","slug":"0-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-forum","title":{"rendered":"0-forum?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a small press book publisher, I was put on the Comp list at Bookforum<\/a>. Despite not having published a book since 2003 and closing down the company in 2004, I’ve remained on the freebie list. The new issue<\/a> arrived last week, on the heels of my 0-fer festival (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So, of the 60+ books that got reviewed in this ish, how many of them was I interested in reading about, and possibly buying?<\/p>\n

Two: The Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews by Robert A.M. Stern<\/a> and Herbie Archives<\/a>. (Curiously, Dan Nadel’s review of Herbie \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a comic book about a fat guy who gets superpowers from enchanted lollipops \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was placed in the nonfiction<\/em> section of the table of contents.)<\/p>\n

I still need to check out William Vollmann’s essay on why Nazi photography is creepy<\/a>. Or maybe I don’t. And Tom Vanderbilt’s review of books on how the suburbs and the internet are alienating or fragmenting or something<\/a> seems pretty blatherous. I did have high hopes for this Richard Price interview<\/a>, but then I discovered that it was a Richard Prince<\/em> interview.<\/p>\n

I’ve been going on lately about my inability to read contemporary books, but I realized that I should check to make sure I’m not full of crap. To that end, I checked through the last 3 years of my list of All The Books I’ve Read<\/a>, sorted by date of publication, and realized that I am full of crap! Here’s a PDF of 2006-2008<\/a>, each year sorted by book-date.<\/p>\n

I decided to include all books from that year and the previous one as “brand spankin’ new,” arbitrary as that seems.<\/p>\n