First and foremost, this is a list of what I’ve read / am reading in 2007. You know, you can follow along if you want to have as much fun as I’m having–I say that sincerely and sarcastically, because there are different types of fun.  There is Derrida and then there are actual stories.  Also, I’ll add responses, notes, and some mini-reviews as time allows; it’s a work in progress…

 JANUARY 2007

Welty, Eudora: “Petrified Man”

Whitehead, Colson: The Intuitionist

Bender, Brett: “Siamese Twins,” Creative Loafing

Derrida, Jaques: “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences,” from Writing and Difference

McHale, Brian: Postmodern Fiction, chapter 1: “From Modernist to Postmodernist Fiction: Change of Dominant,” chapter 6: “Real, Compared to What?”

Warren, Robert Penn. All the King’s Men

Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides

Welty, Eudora. A Curtain of Green.

Welty, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom.

FEBRUARY 2007

Pynchon, Thomas. V.

LaValle, Victor. The Ecstatic.

Shapiro, Jane. The Dangerous Husband.

Link, Kelly. Magic for Beginners.

Welty, Eudora. Delta Wedding.