BOOKS

August 1991 (got and read):
The Cuckoo's Egg
A. S. Byatt: Possession
The Promise of the Coming Dark Age - L. S. Stavrianos (SF: W. H. Freeman 1976)
Rites of Spring: The Great War & the Birth of the Modern Age - Modris Eksteins

December 1992:
*The New Powers - Alvin Toffler
* Head to Head:Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, And America by Lester Thurow
?The End of History - Fukuyama
Democratic Promise - Lawrence Goodwyn (populism - rec by Molly Ivens)
Where the Buffalo Roam - Anne Matthews (about the Poppers Buffalo Commons) Exp July 92

*The Archaeic Revival - Terence McKenna p.17-
*Crazy Wisdom - Scoop Nisker
Et Tu, Babe - Mark Leyner
Generation X - Doug Coupland + Shampoo Planet
Lila - Robert Pirsig
The Buddha of Suburbia - Kureishi
Shiva & Dionysus - Alain Danielou (Harper & Row) 8.95 get (WER Sum90-124)
Local Knowledge - Clifford Geertz (Harper Collins) 11.95 get (WER Win90-50)
The Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder (N Pt) read (WER Spg91-85)
Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase (WER Win 90-29) read
+ Pinball/Norwegian Wood/The Rat's Second Letter
+ Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World Exp Oct 91
Still Life & Other Stories - Junzo Shono (Stone Bridge Press: third in series on Japan lit)
Zhuanzi Speaks: The Music of Nature - Tsai Chich Chung (Taiwan best-seller) BGLit Oct 92
Strawberry Road - Yoshimi Ishikawa
Beyond the Curve - Kobo Abe
Entended - David Debedeen (UK) (foreigner finds violence in South London)
Spill - Les Standaford (ecological mystery in Yellowstone)
Francesca - Roger Scrutin (strange Eng novel of 60s upper & lower class)
Guide to Ethnic Restaurants in the Bay Area (Jolene)
Screen (writing) - Syd Field
ZYZZYVA mag (Utne 40-115)
Drumming at the Edge of Magic - Hart
The Four Winds - Alberto Willoldo
The Miracle Planet - Brown & Morgan
Earth - David Brin
Camping with the Prince & Other Tales of Science in Africa - Thomas A.
Bass (Exp June 90)
Stephen Mitchell translation of Rilke & Tao Te Ching
The Endless Threshold - Jack Hirschman's newest poem collection
??Care of the Soul - Thomas Moore
The Future of the Body - Michael Murphy (of Esalen)

Women - Philippe Sollers
The Secret History - Donna Tartt (famous first novel)
The Murder of Albert Einstein - Todd Gitlin
William Least Heat-Moon: Prairyerth (earlier famous one: Blue Highways)
?Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan
What Was Mine - Ann Beattie & earlier:
?The Volcano Lover - Susan Sontag
Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson cyberpunk BGLit July 92
In the Heart of the Valley of Love - Cynthia Kadohata sounds pretty cyberpunk
He, She and It - cyberpunk by Marge Piercy (Gone to Soldiers, 1987 is her famous one)
Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom - David Wingrove (sounds like cyberpunk)
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon; Playing in the Dark
Alice Hoffman: Turtle Moon "writes novels you devour" Exp Oct 92
Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat (used to write for teens) Exp Dec 92 & BG Lit Dec 92
Bugs; Dreamwatcher; Flicker - Theodore Roszak (Gothic thrillers)
Night People - Barry Gifford (wrote Wild at Heart - Sailor)
White Jazz - James Ellroy (about LA) "like Chinatown on steroids" BG Lit Oct 92
Neruda: "Las Enigmas" - (Bly)
The Island Within - Richard Nelson pristine ecosystem in Pac NW
Donald Duk - Frank Chin
The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan & Joy Luck Club
The Continual Pilgrimage: Am Writers in Paris 1944-60 - Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno Lit 9/92
The Frisco Kid - Jerry Kamstra (N.Beach beats - Lit S.F.p.209)
Uncovering the Sixties: The Life & Times of the Underground Press - Abe Peck
Acid Dreams - Martin Lee & Bruce Schain
Bradbury: Dandelion Wine
Woodstock + 20 - Life Mag (Aug 89)
Taking the Waters - Croutier nice pix of bathers Exp Jan 93

Mile Zero - Thomas Sanchez (author of Rabbit Run)
Kenichi Ohmae
Tristes Tropiques - Claude Levi-Strauss
Freud: Interpretation of Dreams
?A World Lit Only by Fire - Wm Manchester med & Ren Europe Exp Jan 93
Nighttime, Losing Time - Michael Ventura
William Irwin Thompson: Imaginary Landscapes
Jane Jacobs
Soft Energy Paths - Amory Lovins
Havel
Kundera: Immortalitie
Tony Hillerman
Kate Braverman: Squandering the Blue; Lithium for Media
The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
Paul Goodman: Communitas (1960)
Save Three Lives - Rodale
The City: Rediscovering the Center - William Whyte
Encounters with the Arch Druid
The Tao of Physics - Capra
Gimbutas
The Great Cosmic Mother - Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor
(Return of the Goddess _ Edward Whitmont)
*The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook - Editor: Meyer (1987)
? Celtic Mysteries - John Sharkey (Thames & Hudson)
Woody Allen
Kesey's group-written book: Caverns ("by O.U. Levon")
Consumer Report (Feb 90) - condoms
Cartoon Guide to U.S. History - Gonick
Divine Horsemen
They Have a Word for it - Howard Rheingolt
G.B. Shaw? on America (or Wilde??)
-> Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Noam Chomsky
The Monthly Review - Paul Sweezy, Editor
The Exquisite Corpse
Raised by Puppets . . . - Andrei Codresscu
Jennifer Stone: Mind Over Media
Paul Bowles
John Berger: Pig Earth
Proust / Toynbee / Gibbon / Spengler / Nostradamus
Sylvia (Need): Mercy, Its the Revolution / Ok,Thinner Thighs / Sylvia on Sundays
(Have: Training...Blond / Feminist / Woman...Drugs / Weight...height /
Hi,...Sylvia / Mother...Dream(1985)

Naguib Mahfouz: The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / The Palace of Desire / Sugar Street
Wedding Song / The Beginning and the End / The Thief and the Dogs
La Nuit Sacree - Tahar Ben Jalloun (Moroccan)
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Setting Sun and the Rolling World - Charles Mungoshi
Death and the King's Horseman - Wole Soyinka
+ Isara: A Voyage Around Essay / Mandela's Earth (poems)
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart / Kofi Awoonor

To Search:
(The Bulb Book - Martyn Rix & Roger Phillips)
Time/Life Cookbooks for: Southeast Pacific, Middle East, Japan
Asia Magazine from Sept/Oct 81, Jan/Feb 82, July/Aug 82
The International Book of Trees - Simon & Schuster 1973
grasses
Seeds of Fire (Miles Horton)
Bledsoe, Thomas: Or We'll All Hang Separately: The Highlander Idea (Beacon Press, 1969)
The Long Haul: Herb & Judy Cole (Myles Horton autobiography)