Little Library of the Lair

Non-Fiction Readings

In my blog Literature & Society, besides novels & short stories I sometimes refer to works that don't rely on narrative with invented characters. All writing is in some sense fiction, but I'll use "non-fiction"here to describe these other books. This list will serve as a kind of index to mentions, and sometimes reviews, in the blog. The dates following each entry will permit any interested reader to find the reference in the blog archives. (Some books have been mentioned more than once.)

Bienek, Horst. 1991. Wer antwortet wem (poetry). 2003/03/23 

Borjesson, Kristina. 2004. Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists expose the Myth of a Free Press. Pp. 453 + index. Amherst NY: Prometheus Books. 2006/05/22

Brecht, Bertolt. "The Measures Taken" (Die Massnahme) (theater). 2003/07/01

Brecht, Bertolt. "Mother Courage." (theater) 2004/02/26

Brimelow, Peter. 1995. Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster. New York: Random House. 2004/02/26

Clendinnen, Inga. 1991. Aztecs: An Interpretation. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. 2003/05/07

Dalton, Roque. 1983. Poesía escogida. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana (EDUCA). 2003/07/01

Darío, Rubén. 1973. Antología poética. Selección, estudio preliminar y notas de María Isabel Siracusa. Buenos Aires: Editorial Kapelusz. 2004/01/05

Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Random House. 2003/12/29

Ellner, Steve, and Daniel Hellinger, editors. 2003. Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era. Class, Polarization and Conflict. Lynne Rienner. 23/01/10

García Márquez. 2002. Vivir para contarla. Barcelona: Mondadori. 2003/01/04; 2003/11/14

Guillermoprieto, Alma. 2001. Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America. New York: Pantheon. In Pequeña Biblioteca

Lawrence, T. E.  Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 2003/01/18

Lefebvre, Henri. 1991. The Production of Space. Translated by D. Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell. 2004/01/17

Miles, Jack. 1995. God: A Biography. New York: Vintage Books. 2006/05/28

Miller, Walter James. Postmodernism. 2003/11/04

Nicol, Donald MacGillivray. 1996. The Reluctant Emperor. 2003/10/27

Ong, Walter J. 1982. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, Edited by T. Hawkins. London and New York: Routledge. 2003/02/17

Patterson, Charles. 2002. Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust. New York: Lantern Books. 2005/10/20

Poniatowska, Elena. 2005 [1988]. Nada, nadie. Las voces del temblor. México DF: Ediciones Era. In Pequeña Biblioteca

Ramos, Jorge. (Argentinian architect). Ciudades habladas, poems celebrating cities, especially the city of Buenos Aires. 2004/05/31 

Thomas, Piri. 1967. Down These Mean Streets. New York: Knopf. 2003/12/04

Thomas, Piri. 2004. Every Child is Born a Poet. 2004/04/08; also see my review.

Untermeyer , Louis, editor. 1955. Modern American & Modern British Poetry. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 2004/01/08

von Trier, Lars. "Dogville." 2004/05/03

Wiarda, Howard J. Civil Society: The American Model and Third World Development (Boulder: Westview Press, 2003). 2005/10/26

Yurkiévich, Saúl. 2003. Background Noise / Ruido de fondo. Translated by C. Franzen. North Haven CT: Catbird Press. (Poetry) 2003/10/29

Zinsser, Hans. 1935. Rats, Lice and History. 2003/12/29