Carto’s Index for 2011
Under Construction-- Like this Coal Mine by Hart Benton.
Carto’s Library Blog for the year 2011. There are a few more that 80 posts. (I’m still editing the links.)
- Day 1: Hunting a Woozle
Winnie-the-Pooh by
A.A. Milne (1926) - Day 2: Traveling in Cyberspace—Count Zero
Count Zero by
William Gibson - Day 3: Cyberbaggage of the 80′s
Neuromancer by
William Gibson - Day 4: Cyberpunks and Phone Phreaks
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier by
John Markoff with Katie Hafner (1991) - Day 5: Max Headroom, Cyberpunk TV
Interview with William Gibson by Gieseppe Salza (1994) - Day 6: A Twinge in Cyberspace
Machines Who Think by
Pamela Mccorduck (1979) - Day 7: Robots and Cybernetic Animals
The Thinking Computer – Mind Inside Matter by
Bertram Raphael (1976) - Day 8: Artificially Yours, Watson
Artificial Intelligence by
Adrienne Rich (1961). The full text of Adrienne Rich’s poem is printed on page 238 of Machines Who Think by Pamela McCorduck (1972). - Day 9: Galatea, Raphael and Cyberspace
After Ovid (Ed. Hofmann and Lasdun) (1994). Pygmalion and Galatea, p. 237; Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus, p. 274. - Day 10-1: The Edges of Cyberspace
Galatea 2.2 by
Richard Powers (1995). Book Cover by Raphael and unnamed computer whiz; a fictional autobiography of RGP’s year in a mid-western thinktank. - Day 10-2: Hammett, Fiction Noir
The Maltese Falcon by
Dashiell Hammett (1930). - Day 11-1: Hammett in the land of Cervantes
Sombra de la Sombra (Paco Ignacio Talbo II) (1997). - Day 11-2: Historian, Inquisitor Cyber Chat
El Blog del Inquisitor by
Lorenzo Silva (2008). - Day 12: Hard-boiled Fiction Noir
The Big Sleep by
Raymond Chandler (1939). - Day 13: Cyberspace and Borges’ Universe
Jorge Luis Borges: Collected Fictions by
Jorge Luis Borges, Tr. Andrew Hurley (1998). - Day 14: An American Post 9/11 Story
American Subversive by
David Goodwille (2010). - Day 15: A Chamber of Secrets
Turings’ Delirium by
Edmundo Paz Soldan (2007). - Day 16: Saramago’s Lucid Novels
Ensayo sobre la lucidez, (Seeing) by
José Saramago, translation by Pilar del Rio (2004). - Day 17: Americans Solve Jack the Ripper Murders
What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper by
Paula Marantz Cohen (2010). - Day 18: Crime & Punishment LA Style
The Big Sleep by
Raymond Chandler (1939). - Day 19: Havana Noir, Cuban Detective Fiction
Pasado Perfecto (Past Perfect) by
Leonardo Perdura, Translated to English as Havana Blue (2005). - Day 20: Crime and Deceit in Canada
The Blind Assassin by
Margaret Atwood (2000). Winner: Hammett Prize for Crime Fiction). - Day 21: Bloomsday Tribute to Judge Woolsley
Ulises (James Joyce, Spanish ed Santiago Rueda ) (2002). - Day 21: Sergeant Bevilacqua, Spanish Detective
El Lejano País de los Estanques, by
Lorenzo Silva (1998). - Day 22: Crooked letters in Rural Mississippi
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by
Tom Franklin (2010). Short listed for the 2011 Edgar award. - Day 23: Mrs Dalloway on a fine June Day
The Hours by
Michael Cunningham (1999). Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1999 PEN/Faulkner prize. - Day 24: Chile Discovers an Unlikely Detective
¿Quién mató a Cristián Kustermann?, Who killed Cristian Kustermann by
Roberto Ampuero (Chile, 1993). - Day 25: Historians Foil Dracula Plot
The Historian by
Elizabeth Kostova (2005). - Day 26: Collective Bargaining in Butte Montana
Work Song by
Ivan Doig (2010). - Day 27: Irish Detectives Solve Baffling Sex Crime
In The Woods by
Tana French (2007). - Day 28: A Love Story: Murder and Abuse in South Boston
The Neighbor (Detective D. D. Warren) Lisa Gardner (2009). - Day 29:Creepy Jungle Adventure in Haiti
In the Palm of Darkness:A Novel by
Mayra Montero. Spanish title:Tu, La Oscuridad (1998). - Day 30: Kidnapping and Beekeeping in Buenos Aires
La abeja (The Queen Bee) by
César Aira (2008). - Day 31: Image & Reality:Don Quixote and Sancho
Don Quixote by
Miguel de Cervantes; translated Edith Grossman (2003). - Day 32: A Gunslinger of Impeccable Personal Smoothness
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by
Stephen King (1982). - Day 32: Summertime Reading Don Quixote
Don Quijote de la Mancha, Selección Anotada by
Miguel de Cervantes; prolog by Jose Saramago (2005). - Day 33: Bricklayer Mets Out Justice
The Bricklayer by
Noah Boyd, a pen name (2010). - Day 34: Rough Guide to Bangkok Underworld
A Nail Through the Heart by
Timothy Halllinan (2007). - Day 35: Blue Dogs in my Dreams
Ojos de perro azul by
Gabriel García Márquez (1950, English title: Eyes of a blue dog). - Day 36: A Romantic Telenovela Brings Drug Queen to TV
El Reina del Sur by
Arturo Pérez-Reverte (2002). - Day 37: Bumbling Detective saves Czarist Russia
The Winter Queen by
Boris Akunin, a pen name; tr. Andrew Bromfield (2004). - Day 38: Lost in a sea of words
When the Killing’s Done by
T.C. Boyle (2011).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-8r - Day 39: Awash in The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by
Virginia Woolf (1931).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-8y - Day 40: Listen to the Voices
Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices by
Dylan Thomas (1954).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-8F - Day 41: Looking at Hard Times
Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942 by
Mary Murphy, Montana Historical Society (2003).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-8L - Day 41: The Battle for the Channel Islands
When the Killing’s Done by
T.C. Boyle (2011).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-8T - Day 42: Days of Jim Crow and Protest
One With Others by
C. D. Wright (2010).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-90 - Day 43: The Lynching At Grasshopper Creek
A Decent Orderly Lynching—The Montana Vigilantes by
Frederick Allen (2004).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-98 - Day 44: Moo U, Stories Of Pigs and Professors Moo by
Jane Smiley (1995).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-9g - Day 45: Murder Most Grim on the English Moors Blood Harvest by
S. J. Bolton (2010).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-9l - Day 46: Harry, The Boy Who Lived!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Spanish title: Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal) by
J. K. Rawlings(1998).
http://wp.me/s14mpp-582 - Day 47: Introducing Sicily and Inspector Montalvano The Shape of Water by
Andrea Camilleri (1994).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-9y - Day 49: Hairspray al fresco on Mt. Tamilpais
Hairspray by
John Waters (1989).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-9E - Day 50: Noir Buenos Aires, A Homophobic Taxi Driver
Sueños de Perros by
Guillermo Orsi (2004).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-9Q - Day 51: Vive la France—Carla Bruni sings Emily Dickenson
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition by
Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin (1998).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-9X - Day 52: Books to look at—no reading allowed
The Art of the Book in California: Five Contemporary Presses by
Stanford University Libraries (2011).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-a3 - Day 54: Celebrating Hemingway—Cuba leads the way
The Sun Also Rises (European title Fiesta), Ernest Hemingway (1929).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-ad - Day 55: Gay Tales from San Francisco
Tales of the City by
Armistead Maupin (1978, Kindle version 2011).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-al - Day 56: Mexican Detective Cabrera Listens to Cumbia
The Black Minutes (Los Minutos Negros) by
Martín Solares (2006).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-at - Day 57: Note to Congress: Beware the Jabberwock
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1871, St. Martin’s Press ed. 1977).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-aw - Day 58: Canons Reverberate in a Tiny Caribbean Harbor
The First Salute by
Barbara Tuchman (1988).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-aH - Day 59: Looking Back: Vietnam and The Quiet American
The Quiet American, Graham Green (1955).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-aS - Day 60: Harold Pinter: Tense Memory Play Recalls Old Times
Old Times, Harold Pinter (1971).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-b3 - Day 61: Summer on a Mid-western Horse Farm
Barn Blind, Jane Smiley (1980).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-bh - Day 62: The Whale—The Lure of the Sea
Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1851).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-bo - Day 63: Sorghum Justice: Murder and Vengeance in Mexico
Un Dulce Olor a Muerte (A Sweet Scent of Death, tr. Alan Page), Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico, 1994).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-bx - Day 64: Our Founders: How Did They Do It?
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Jack N. Rakove (1996).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-bI - Day 65: A Slavic Love Story: Hero and Leander Retold
The Inner Side of the Wind, or The Novel of Hero and Leander, Milorad Pavic, Christina Pribicevic-Zoric (Translator) (1993).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-bR - Day 66: Oedipus—A King in Torment
Oedipus of Lucius Annaeus Seneco, Freely Translated and Adapted by Michaels Elliot Rutenberg (1998). Also, in libraries: Seneca’s Oedipus adapted by Ted Hughes, (Introduction by Peter Brook; Illustrated by Reginald Pollack) Doubleday, 1972
http://wp.me/p14mpp-c4 - Day 67: WWII Resistance: Soldiers Without Uniforms
Night Soldiers, Alan Furst (1988).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-cl - Gourmet: Mechanical Soft Menu
Mechanical Soft Menu
An Autobiographical Story in 3 parts, 2011
http://wp.me/p14mpp-cB - Day 68: The Bible: Gutenberg’s Printing Shop, Year 1439
Johann Gutenberg And His Bible: A Historical Study, Janet Ing (1990).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-d7 - Day 69: A Birthday Tribute to Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Poems, Alexander Coleman (ed.) (1999).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-di - Day 70: Perry Mason—The Case of the 24th Sestina
The Whole Truth, James Cummins (1986).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-do - Day 71: The Parker Novels—A Criminal’s Life. Fiction, Of Course
The Score, Richard Stark (1967, eBook 2010).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-dB - Day 72: John Updike: His Novel Evokes Feelings of Sept. 11 Tragedy
The Terrorist, John Updike (2006).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-dH - Day 73: Bojagi: Art by the Women of Korea
Bojagi & Beyond, Chunghie Lee (2010).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-dM - Day 74: Georgia: An Echo of Chain Gang Justice
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories, Carson McCullers (originally 1951, now available as an eBook).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-dZ - Day 75: Poet Whispering In the Ear of Congress
The Niagara River, Kay Ryan (Grove/Atlantic Press , 2005).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-e9 - Day 75: DeLillo: The White Noise of Civilization
White Noise, Don DeLillo (1985).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-ep - Day 76: Plumbing: Charlie’s Story Part I
Human Growth- New School Edition, Lester F. Beck (1969).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-ex - Day 77: Plumbing: Charlie’s Story Part II
The Pit and the Pendulum (eBook, first published in: The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1843), Edgar Alan Poe (1842).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-eG - Day 78: Stephen Foster: Darkies, People and Great Music
A Treasury of Stephen Foster, Historical Notes by John Tasker Howard, Arrangements by Ray Lev and Dorothy Berliner Commins, Illustrations by William Sharp (Random House, 1946).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-eQ - Day 79: The Robber Bride: Woman against Women
The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood (1993).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-eZ - Day 80: Orpheus and Eurydice in the Rain Forest of Brazil
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett (2011).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-f8 - Day 81: Allende’s Tale of El Dorado, A Lost City In The Venezuelan Rain Forest
La ciudad de los bestias (The City of the Beasts), Isabel Allende
(2002).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-fj - Day 82: Thornton Wilder: Our Town Survives Deconstruction
Our Town, Thornton Wilder (2003).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-fs - Day 83: Clinton in Myanmar—Look Out, Hillary!
Finding George Orwell in Burma (by Emma Larkin, a pen-name) (2006).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-fF - Day 84: A Bluejacket Remembers the Battleship Arizona
The Bluejackets’ Manual, U. S. Naval Institute (1950).
Note: Bluejacket. The first uniform that was ever officially sanctioned for sailors in the Royal Navy was a short blue jacket open in the front. A generic name for a Navy enlisted person.
http://wp.me/p14mpp-fS - Day 86: Iraq: A Haiku War?
Point Omega, Don DeLillo (2010).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-gb - Day 87: Happy New Year—Has The Harry Potter Series Really Ended?
> The Tales of Beedle the Bard by
J. K. Rawling (2008).
http://wp.me/p14mpp-gq
That’s the list for 2011.
Carto
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