– James Gleick God’s Pocket – Pete Dexter The Poet and the Murderer – Simon Worrall Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami Lie Down in Darkness – William Styron Leadville – Edward Platt Master Georgie – Beryl Bainbridge How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer (two copies) Books read: A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates – Blake Bailey (completed) Wenger: The Making of a Legend – Jasper Rees How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer Bush at War – Bob Woodward (unfinished) Unnamed Literary Novel (abandoned) Unnamed Work of Nonfiction (abandoned) No Name – Wilkie Collins (unfinished) December 2003/January 2004 Books bought: Moneyball – Michael Lewis Saul and Patsy – Charles Baxter Winner of the National Book Award – Jincy Willett Jenny and the Jaws of Life – Jincy Willett The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut True Notebooks – Mark Salzman Books read: No Name – Wilkie Collins Moneyball – Michael Lewis George and Sam: Autism in the Family – Charlotte Moore The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut February 2004 Books bought: Old School – Tobias Wolff Train – Pete Dexter Backroom Boys – Francis Spufford You Are Not a Stranger Here – Adam Haslett Eats, Shoots and Leaves – Lynn Truss Books read: Enemies of Promise – Cyril Connolly What Just Happened? – Art Linson Clockers – Richard Price Eats, Shoots and Leaves – Lynn Truss Meat Is Murder – Joe Pernice Dusty in Memphis – Warren Zanes Old School – Tobias Wolff Introducing Time – Craig Callender and Ralph Edney PLUS: a couple of stories in You Are Not a Stranger Here; a couple of stories in Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme; a couple of stories in Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry by Elizabeth McCracken. March 2004 Books bought: The Amateur Marriage – Anne Tyler The Eclipse – Antonella Gambotto The Complete Richard Hannay – John Buchan Selected Letters – Gustave Flaubert Vietnam-Perkasie – W. D. Ehrhart Books read: Some of Flaubert's letters Not Even Wrong – Paul Collins How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World – Francis Wheen Liar's Poker – Michael Lewis Some of Greenmantle – John Buchan How to Give Up Smoking and Stay Stopped for Good – Gillian Riley April 2004 Books bought: Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton The Long Firm – Jake Arnott American Sucker – David Denby Books read: Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton The Long Firm –