Everything I saw, read and enjoyed listening to this year.
BOOKS
Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters James Wolcott, Lucking Out
Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire
E L James, Fifty Shades Freed
E L James, Fifty Shades Darker
E L James, Fifty Shades of Grey
Brom, Krampus
Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton
Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Alan Licht, Ed.)
Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins
Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue
J.R. Moehringer, Sutton
Chris Ware, Building Stories
Zadie Smith, NW
Owen Johnson, Stover at Yale
Paul Auster, Winter Journal
Nora Ephron, Wallflower at the Orgy
Joan Didion, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels
Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You
Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
Patrick Somerville, This Bright River
Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York
Renata Adler, Speedboat
Ann Beattie, Chilly Scenes of Winter
Nora Ephron, Scribble Scribble
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Christopher Hayes, Twilight of the Elites
Kate Christensen, In the Drink
Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away
Jesse Jarnow, Big Day Coming
Joe Meno, Office Girl
The Paris Review, Summer 2012
Justin Halpern, I Suck at Girls
Christopher Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder
John Leonard, Reading for My Life
Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
Warren Littlefield, Top of the Rock
Granta Spring 2012
Rosecrans Baldwin, Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
The Paris Review Spring 2012
Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
Josh Schollmeyer, "Enemies, A Love Story" (Kindle Single)
Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising
Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
Patti Smith, Just Kids
J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters and Seymour - An Introduction
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Dick Cavett, Talk Show
Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall
FILM
Pitch Perfect
Skyfall
The Central Park Five
Arbitrage
The Dust Bowl
Ruby Sparks
Magic Mike
Nobody Walks
30 Beats
Bernie
Bachelorette
Meet the Fokkens
To Rome with Love
2 Days in New York
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Lola Versus
Moonrise Kingdom
Damsels in Distress
Friends with Kids
Albert Nobbs
Red Tails
Haywire
Pariah
My Week with Marilyn
LIVE
The Book of Mormon, Bank of America Theatre NRBQ, FitzGerald's
Holly Golightly and Daniel Wayne, Beat Kitchen
Adventures in Modern Music Festival, Empty Bottle
Mission of Burma, Lincoln Hall
John Talabot and Orchard Lounge, Smart Bar
The Minus Times book release, Whistler
Dirty Three, Lincoln Hall
Sloan, Subterranean
Cubs vs. Reds, Wrigley Field
Dick Higgins: The Thousand Symphonies, Graham Foundation
Orchard Lounge, Millenium Park
Shellac and Nina Nastasia, Lincoln Hall
Orchard Lounge, Smart Bar
Printers' Ball, Columbia College
Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park
Waco Brothers, Beat Kitchen
Icky Blossoms and Fool's Gold, Schuba's
Wave Pictures, Schuba's
Les Blank Retrospective, Columbia College
IASPM/EMP Pop Conference, NYU
Wedding Present, (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Madonnathon, (Le) Poisson Rouge
George Lois Damn Good Advice book release, Art Directors Club
Geoff Dyer and John Jeremiah Sullivan in conversation, 192 Books
Mariam Wallentin and Mikael Karlsson with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, Merkin Concert Hall
Ask Me About... Madame Bovary, McNally Jackson
Hilton Als discussion, Columbia University
Wallace Shawn and Deborah Eisenberg read Gregor von Rezzori, Center for Fiction
Sons and Heirs, Bell House
Jeff Mangum, State Theater (Minneapolis)
'"Behind the Longreads" with New York panel, Housing Works Bookstore
Jeff Mangum, BAM
Jonathan Kane's February with Tony Conrad, ISSUE Project Room
Literary Brooklyn talk with Evan Hughes and Edgar Garcia, Brooklyn Historical Society
Wim Wenders with Pina, IFC Center
ART
"Brent Riley: Who Goes There: Golems and Constructs," Firecat Projects
"Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity," MCA Chicago
"Modernist Art from India," Rubin Museum of Art
"Debbie Millman: Look Both Ways," Chicago Design Museum
"This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s," MCA Chicago
"Keith Haring: 1978-1982," Brooklyn Museum
"Jean-Philippe Delhomme: Dressed for Art," French Institute Alliance Française
"Jim Henson's Fantastic World," Museum of the Moving Image
ALBUMS
Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago (Numero Group)Cat Power, Sun (Matador)
Cate Le Bon, Cyrk (Control Group)
David Byrne and St. Vincent, Love This Giant (4AD)
Departures, Still and Moving Lines (Borana)
Dum Dum Girls, End of Daze (Sub Pop)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND! (Constellation)
Hot Chip, In Our Heads (Domino)
Imperial Teen, Feel the Sound (Merge)
Jonathan Kane's February, Live at ISSUE Project Room (ISSUE Project Room Editions)
John Talabot, ƒIN (Permanent Vacation)
Kid Koala, 12 bit Blues (Ninja Tune)
Lambchop, Mr. M (Merge)
Lightships, Electric Cables (Geographic)
Matthew Dear, Beams (Ghostly)
Miguel, Kaleidoscope Dream (RCA)
Neil Halstead, Palindrome Hunches (Universal)
Neneh Cherry and the Thing, The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
Sea and Cake, Runner (Thrill Jockey)
Wedding Present, Valentina (Scopitones)
xx, Coexist (Young Turks)
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