Books

• Thomas M. Disch, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
• Brian Evenson, Fugue State: Stories

Exhibits

• “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976,” MoMA

Books

• David Shields, Enough About You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography
• Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain

Films

• The Divorcée, directed by Robert Z. Leonard
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, dir. John Krasinski
• Sarabande & Winter, dir. Nathaniel Dorsky
• A Free Soul, dir. Clarence Brown

Exhibits

• “David Novros,” Paula Cooper Gallery
• “Carl Andre,” Paula Cooper Gallery
• “Zig Zag,” Sperone Westwater
• “Heinz Mack: Paintings, 1957–1964,” Sperone Westwater
• “James Turrell: Large Holograms,” PaceWildenstein
• “Bernadette Corportation,” Greene Naftali
• “Peter Hujar: Photographs 1956–1958,” Matthew Marks Gallery
• “Dennis Hopper: Signs of the Times,” Tony Shafrazi Gallery
• “A Matter of Light,” Elga Wimmer

Books

• Sarah Manguso, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape
• Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes
• Deb Olin Unferth, Minor Robberies
• Mark Strand, Selected Poems
• Gary Lutz, Partial List of People to Bleach
• Ann Quin, Berg

Films

• Mentiras piadosas (Made Up Memories), directed by Diego Sabanés
• The Informant!, dir. Steven Soderbergh
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, dir. Tony Richardson

Books

• Marcel Duchamp, Manual of Instructions: Étant donnés: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’éclairage . . . (ed. Anne d’Harnoncourt & Michael R. Taylor)
• Julio Corázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds (trans. Thomas Christensen)
• Gianfranco Baruchello & Henry Martin, How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art and Agriculture
• Julio Cortázar & Carol Dunham, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (trans. Anne McLean)

Films

• Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, directed by Chantal Akerman
• Tout la mémoire du monde, dir. Alain Resnais
• Cortázar (Celestial Clockwork), dir. Tristán Bauer

Exhibits

• Carol Bove with Janine Lariviere, “Plants & Mammals,” The Horticultural Society of America
• “Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design,” Visual Arts Gallery, SVA
• “Ken Friedman: 99 Events,” Maya Stendhal Gallery

Books

• Stephen Wright, M31: A Family Romance
• Stacy Szymaszek, Emptied of All Ships
• Joseph McElroy, Ancient History: A Paraphase
• Julio Cortázar, 62: A Model Kit (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

Films

• Standard Operating Procedure, directed by Errol Morris

Books

• Procopius, The Secret History, trans. G. A. Williamson
• Micheline Aharonian Marcom, The Mirror in the Well
• Georges Perec, Thoughts of Sorts, trans. David Bellos
• Donald Antrim, The Afterlife: a memoir
• Giorgio Manganelli, Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels, trans. Henry Martin

Films

• Baby Face, directed by Alfred E. Green
• Valerie a týden divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders), dir. Jaromil Jireš

Exhibits

• “Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection,” Philadelphia Museum of Art
• “Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés,” Philadelphia Museum of Art

Books

• Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay
• Ronald Firbank, The New Rythum and Other Pieces
• Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction

Films

• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols
• Where the Boys Are, dir. Henry Levin
• The Bad Seed, dir. Mervyn LeRoy

Exhibits

• “Dormitorium: An Exhibition of Film Decors by the Quay Brothers,” The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons

Books

• Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show
• Martin Duberman, Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
• Franz Kafka, Amerika: The Missing Person, trans. Mark Harman

Films

• District 9, directed by Neill Blomkamp