Bill Kittredge’s Reading List
March 30, 2009
I’m teaching grad students this winter at UC Irvine, and so I’m far from most of my books but here’s at least a list of what I’ve been reading and/or rethinking down here in Orange County—travel and fiction, imaginary worlds, masterpieces all and not quite fantasy.
Marilynne Robinson—Housekeeping
Franz Kafka—The Country Doctor
Patrick Leigh Fermor—A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water
D. H. Lawrence—The Sea and Sardinia
W. H. Merwin—The Folding Cliffs
Joseph O’Neill—Netherland
Michael Ondaatje—Divisadero
Lloyd Jones—Mister Pip
James Salter—A Sport and a Pastime
Dennis Johnson—Jesus’ Son
Haruki Murakami—Kafka at the Shore
Cormac McCarthy—Blood Meridian
Gabriel Garcia Marquez—One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wilfred Thesinger—Arabian Sands
William Kittredge, essayist, fiction writer, and formerly a professor at the University of Montana, is author of The Next Rodeo, The Willow Field, and Hole in the Sky. His recent contribution to Orion, a review of Jim Harrison’s book The English Major, appeared in the March/April 2009 magazine.
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1 Ricardo Palacios on Apr 13, 2009
I’m reading Hole in the Sky. Are you the author?
I have searched high and low on the internet, and have been unable to find a thread.
Please let me hear from you.
I live on a ranch in South Texas,and want to email you.
Rdp
Attorney Rancher
Encinal, TX
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