Category: Book Club

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. This month: underground venues, psychedelic comics, jazz, border towns, and U2.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. This month, poetic prose, historical fiction, a workplace novel, and a vivid travelogue.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. Featuring the occult roots of rock, John Sinclair’s prison writings, Bowie comics, Anna Kavan’s dystopian road novel, and the nature writing of J.A. Baker.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. On the deck this month, books on The Velvet Underground, legendary bootleg purveyors, an acid western urtext, and more.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. This month: Sam Shepard on Bob Dylan, Prince in the studio, René Daumal’s Mount Analogue, César Aira, Philip Frobos, Rachel Kushner, and the concrete poetry of Jim Johnson.

Back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard Book Club: Chapter Nine, featuring poetic music writing by Hanif Abdurraqib, Dead insider Steve Parrish, the lyrics of Robyn Hitchcock, John Higgs on William Blake, and the underground comix of Gary Panter.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our recurring column of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. This month, the short fiction of Henry Dumas, Leonora Carrington’s comedic novel, alchemical poetry from N.H. Pritchard, Stanley Crawford, and Scott McClanahan’s Crapalachia.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our recurring column of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading, featuring Matthew Specktor on Los Angeles, Alan Licht’s sprawling interviews, Rosemary Leary, Jeanne Thornton, and more.

Our monthly guide to recent (and not so recent) recommended reading. This month, fatalistic science fiction from Izumi Suzuki, a guide to The Fall, classic blues writing by Robert Gordon and Tom Scharpling’s gripping and hilarious memoir.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, featuring looks at Jennifer Lucy Allan’s The Foghorn’s Lament, Joe Banks’ Hawkwind: Days of the Underground-Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia and more recent (and not so recent) recommended reading.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. Your librarians this month are Justin Gage, Nereya Otieno, and Kyle Fortinsky, exploring books on music, Black feminism, solitude, and the brutal (and shifting realities) of the late Lou Reed.

Welcome back to the stacks. The Aquarium Drunkard Book Club gathering up some new (and not so new) reads by Brian Eno, Ram Dass, Oliver Stone, and more, spanning historical texts to music histories and beyond.

In his 2011 book Mutants & Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal, Jeffrey J. Kripal writes: “Reality, if you will, comes to be in the space between the properly trained reader and the revealed text…Reading is mysticism.” With that in mind, welcome to the second chapter of the Aquarium Drunkard Book Club, a recurring series of reading recommendations.

Warren Zevon once said “We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.” But even if your towering “too read” can’t guarantee immortality, those pages can make life feel even more worth living. Welcome to the inaugural Aquarium Drunkard Book Club. This installment finds Tyler Wilcox guiding us through a few of his recent reads. Enjoy. More soon.