Besides _Ulysses_, which I already mentioned (by the way, that's my solution to the Italics issue).

_Everything that Rises Must Converge_ by Flannery O'Connor

- an incredible set of stories dealing with the psychology and racial dynamics of the South. Writing's almost too sharp to bear.


_Imitations_ by Robert Lowell

- Lowell's quasi-translations of European poets. He's described it as "what the poem would be if the poet was me".

_African Rhythm and African Sensibility_ by John Chernoff

- doesn't need much introduction. One of the most sensitively told ethnomusicological studies of West-African drumming.

_Forty Stories_ by Anton Chekov

- a new translation, incredibly good rendering in English.

_Holding the Line_ by Barbara Kingsolver

- before her fiction phase, this book is a gripping description of women in 1983's Arizona Miner's strike.

_Cathedral_ by Raymond Carver

- his best collection of short fiction.


That's enough for now.

Alek

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