2015 Reading List Monthly Update: April

Books read in April of 2015:

"The Seven Hearts of Abby Leah" (Andrew Champagne) 4-23-15
"The Filth: Deluxe Edition" (Grant Morrison) 4-30-15

2015 Reading List Total:

1. "The New Gods" (E.M. Cioran) 1-4-15
2. "The Great Cat: Poems About Cats" (Edited by Emily Fragos) 1-6-15
3. "Les Misérables" (Victor Hugo) 1-12-15
4. "Enigma" (Peter Milligan) 1-13-15
5. "Murphy" (Samuel Beckett) 1-14-15
6. "Zac's Haunted House" (Dennis Cooper) 1-15-15
7. "Fashion in Impressionist Paris" (Debra N. Mancoff) 1-16-15
8. "Endgame & Act Without Words I" (Samuel Beckett) 1-17-15
9. "Là-Bas: A Journey into the Self" (J.K. Huysmans) 1-20-15 *
10. "Heart of Darkness" (Joseph Conrad) 1-23-15
11. "Dawn: Xenogenesis" (Octavia Butler) 1-24-15
12."Sky Saw" (Blake Butler) 1-28-15
13."Angels" (Denis Johnson) 1-28-15
14."Flutes in the Garden" (Chip Richards) 1-31-15
15. "The Temptation to Exist" (E.M. Cioran) 2-4-15
16. "The Sound and the Fury" (William Faulkner) 2-5-15
17. "Train Dreams" (Denis Johnson) 2-6-15
18. "Ice" (Anna Kavan) 2-9-15
19. "How It Is" (Samuel Beckett) 2-9-15
20. "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly" (Denis Johnson) 2-10-15
21. "The Annotated Sandman Volume One" (Neil Gaiman) 2-14-15
22. "Poor Things" (Alasdair Gray) 2-14-15
23. "The Trouble With Being Born" (E.M. Cioran) 2-17-15
24. "I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like" (Justin Isis) 2-19-15
25. "Nobody Move" (Denis Johnson) 2-21-15
26. "Angels in America" (Tony Kushner) 2-26-15
27. "The Goners" (Mark Gluth) 2-26-15
28. "The Annotated Sandman Volume Two" (Neil Gaiman) 2-26-15
29. "Girl in a Band" (Kim Gordon) 3-2-15
30. "The Annotated Sandman Volume 3" (Neil Gaiman) 3-7-15
31. "Concrete Island" (J.G. Ballard) 3-19-15
32. "Tree of Smoke" (Denis Johnson) 3-24-15
33. "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" (Alison Bechdel) 3-24-15
34. "Burnt Black Stars: a Collection of Weird Tales" (Simon Strantzas) 3-31-15
35. "The Seven Hearts of Abby Leah" (Andrew Champagne) 4-23-15
36. "The Filth: Deluxe Edition" (Grant Morrison) 4-30-15

*= book I have read at least once in the past

Currently Reading:

"Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories" (Algernon Blackwood)

Autopsy of an Eldritch City now out

Today marks the official publication day of Autopsy of an Eldritch City. Aside from the Rebel Satori website, it may now also be ordered through Amazon (available in both physical copies and ebook versions). It should soon start appearing on other sites such as Barnes & Noble as well.

Autopsy of an Eldritch City Day on Dennis Cooper's blog

This weekend Dennis Cooper's blog is kindly hosting an introduction/sneak preview I wrote to my upcoming book Autopsy of an Eldritch City, where I go into some details on the writing process, what inspired it, some samples of the artwork, excerpts, and so on. Click on the link to find out more:

http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.fr/2015/04/please-welcome-to-world-james.html?zx=3a86c1c5a1b6a2fd

"Autopsy of an Eldritch City" now on pre-sale

Just an announcement that my second short story collection, Autopsy of an Eldritch City: Ten Tales of Strange & Unproductive Thinking is now available for pre-order on the Rebel Satori website:

http://www.rebelsatoripress.com/autopsy-of-an-eldritch-city-james-champagne/

It would seem that the expected release date is April 28, 2015.