A Dozen Revelatory Books About Everyday Objects
(alphabetically by author, with a soundtrack by Alva Noto and Blixa Bargeld)
Machine by Peter Adolphsen
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
The Toy Catalogue by Sandra Petrignani
Selected Poems by Francis Ponge
A Hummock in the Malookas by Matthew Rohrer
Transfer of Qualities by Martha Ronk
My Private Property by Mary Ruefle
— November 4, 2020