Literary journals. Check out "Noon" for fiction and "Field" for poetry.
Akimbo
Curl Up and Die
Daughters
Junius
You Say Party, We Say Die
Cancer Bats
Aesop Rock
The Octopus Project
Okkervil River
Air
Aesop Rock, Okkervil River, Every Time I Die and The Dillinger Escape Plan all have new albums out within a month. Send someone to save me.
Now, as if to compliment all that, each of those bands is playing nearby sometime in the next two months.
The Seventh Seal
The Deer Hunter
2001: A Space Odyssey
Zach Galifinakis Live at the Purple Onion
Arrested Development, The Office, The Sopranos
Reading:
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Against Which - Ross Gay
tons of school stuff
Read:
Poetry -
The External Combustion Engine - Michael Ives
The Book of Funnels - Christian Hawkey
The Sonnets - Ted Berrigan
The Concerto Form - Anthony Hawley
Dura - Myung Mi Kim
Prose-
Portnoy's Complaint, The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
Pastoralia - George Saunders
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR's "On Point."