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Books and Music

What I've been reading and listening to lately
Recent Books (My Hardboiled Covers Page)
Every Dead Thing, John Connolly
Collected Stories
, Frank O'Connor
​The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
Blacktop Wasteland, S.A. Cosby
Deacon King Kong, James McBride
​So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
Skeletons on the Zahara, Dean King
Someone to Run With, David Grossman
Golden Prey, John Sandford
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Paper Trails, Pete Dexter
​The Leopard, Jo Nesbo
Sharpe's Tiger, Bernard Cornwell
One Shot, Lee Child
A Pigeon and a Boy, Meir Shalev
The Glass Rainbow, James Lee Burke
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Stand, Stephen King
Collected Stories, Frank O'Connor
Lemons Never Lie, Richard Stark
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Broken, Don Winslow
War at the End of the World, Mario Vargas Llosa
Five Points, Tyler Anbinder
Shipwrecks, Akira Yoshimura
Memed, My Hawk, Yaşar Kemal
The Bitterest Pill, Reed Farrel Coleman
The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
​​A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
The Far Empty, J. Todd Scott
The Border, Don Winslow
Didion: The 1960s and 70s, Joan Didion
Blood & Thunder, Hampton Sides
Works on Paper, Eliot Weinberger
Bringing Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
The Fixer,Bernard Malamud
Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff
The Physician, Noah Gordon
Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andric
The Hot Rock, Donald Westlake
Hell or Richmond, Ralph Peters
​End of Watch
, Stephen King
Hostage, Robert Crais
The Second Girl, David Swinson
Woe To Live On, Daniel Woodrell
The Overstory, Richard Powers
The Heavenly Table, Donald Ray Pollock
The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
The Lost Man, Jane Harper
Dark Sacred Night, Michael Connelly
A Guest for the Night, SY Agnon
The Dry, Jane Harper
Iron Lake,William Kent Krueger
At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen
The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Jim Harrison
Breaking Point, CJ Box
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, Edward Rice
The Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor
The Last Ballad, Wiley Cash
Dirty Work, Larry Brown
Welding with Children, Tim Gautreaux
A long long way, Sebastian Barry
A land more kind than home, Wiley Cash
Only Killers and Thieves, Paul Howarth
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
The Company, Robert Littell
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
The Grifters, Jim Thompson
The Slave, Isaac Bashevis Singer​
Rain Dogs, Adrian McKinty
Pogrom, Steven Zipperstein
Night Life, David Taylor
The Collected Stories, Isaac Babel
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, Mark Sullivan
The Stand, Stephen King
The Kill Artist, Daniel Silva
In the Distance, Hernan Diaz
Satan in Goray, Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Last Good Kiss, James Crumley
Killing Rommel, Steven Pressfield
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
On Writing, Stephen King
A Rising Man, Abir Mukherjee
Odessa Stories, Isaac Babel
Pumpkinflowers, Matti Friedman
Two Kinds of Truth, Michael Connelly
The Late Show, Michael Connelly
A Simple Story, SY Agnon
The Way Some People Die, Ross MacDonald
The Moor's Account, Laila Lalami
Signals, Tim Gautreaux
She Rides Shotgun, Jordan Harper
Israel, a concise history, Daniel Gordis
UNSUB, Meg Gardiner
The Lion's Gate, Stephen Pressfield
The Force, Don Winslow
The Drifter, Nick Petrie
Gun Street Girl, Adrian McKinty
In the morning I'll be gone, Adrian McKinty
The Tsar of Love and Techno, Anthony Marra
Roman Blood, Steven Saylor
Flesh and Bones
​, Paul Levine
Train, Pete Dexter
The Long Home, ​William Gay
Gunshot Straight, Lou Berney
Joe, Larry Brown
I hear the sirens in the street, Adrian McKinty
I hate to see that evening sun go down, William Gay
Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais​
The Cold Cold Ground, Adrian McKinty
The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
Top Books (ongoing list as they occur to me)
​The Power and the Glory, Grahame Greene
The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Paris Trout, Pete Dexter
Deadwood, Pete Dexter
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Orenda, Joseph Boyden
Lamb, Christopher Moore
Bosch Series, Michael Connelly
Elvis Cole Series, Robert Crais
Joe Pickett Series, CJ Box
Abel Jones Series, Owen Parry
Sean Duffy Series, Adrian McKinty
​Stone City, Mitchell Smith
Treasure of Sierra Madre, B. Traven
​Anything Isaac Bashevis Singer
​Silence, Shusako Endo
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Recent Music
Earl Plays George Gershwin, Earl Hines
Palo Alto, Thelonious Monk
​Just a Dream, Big Bill Broonzy
​RoundAgain, Joshua Redman
No.1, Etran De L'air
​Complete Blue Note Sessions, Ike Quebec
​Bottomlands, Mike Dowling
Budapest Concert, Keith Jarrett
​TNT, Tortoise
You're Dead!, Flying Lotus
New Orleans Piano, Professor Longhair
​Valentine, Bill Frisell
​Solo Do Meio Dia, Egberto Gismonti
Complete Recordings, Mississippi John Hurt
​For the Record, Merle Haggard
Live at Maybeck, Dave McKenna
The 
Final Tour, Miles Davis & John Coltrane
​Computer Games, George Clinton

​Jaime, Brittany Howard
​All John Prine
​You taught my heart to sing, Houston Person & Bill Charlap
​Freedom is Free, Chicano Batman
​The Red Door, Bucky Pizzarelli and Scott Hamilton
Liquid Silver, Andy Laverne
Live at Maybeck Hall, Hal Galper
​Life's a Take, Roger Kellaway/Red Mitchell

Boatman's Call, Nick Cave & Bad Seeds
​Question & Answer, Pat Metheny
​Big Twang, David Lindley
Long Journey Home, Kentucky Colonols
​Swing Reunion, Teddy Wilson & Benny Carter
​Bakersfield, Vince Gill & Paul Franklin
Devotion, Dave Douglas/Uri Caine/Andrew Cyrille
Live at It Club, Thelonious Monk Quartet
Mulligan Meets Monk, Monk and Mulligan
​Freak Flag, Greg Brown
Something Special,
Jim Hall
The Philadelphia Expriment
In the Pocket, Jessica WIlliams
​Until the Quiet Comes, 
Flying Lotus
Swedish Ballads & More, Scott Hamilton
​Navidad de los Andes,
Dino Saluzzi
Fingers, Dave McKenna
​Passion 
flower 1940-1946, Johnny Hodges
Freefall, Kenny Barron & Regina Carter

McKinney's Cotton Pickers: 1928-1929
The Improvisor, Von Freeman
Currents, Constellations, Nels Cline 4
Brazil With Love, Barbosa-Lima & Isbin
Dedicated to Connie,
Modern Jazz Quartet
Wai Notes, Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie Billiy
Memphis Blues 30's, Various Artists
What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
New Moon Daughter, Cassandra Wilson
Townes, Steve Earle
Live at the Village Gate,
Milt Jackson
Guy, Steve Earle
The Complete Jazz Sessions 1962, Coleman Hawkins Quartet
Rise & Shine, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Satrs
La 
Pistola Y El Corazon, Los Lobos
John, Paul, George, and Django, Hot Club of SF Simple Pleasures, Alison Brown
Time Waits, Bud Powell
One for the Road, Willie Nelson & Leon Russell
Organ Monk Blue, Gregory Lewis
​Flatbed Buggy, Rudy Royston
Brazen Heart, Dave Douglas Quintet
By A Little Light, Matt Ulery
Do Wrong Right, Devil Makes Three
The Low Highway, Steve Earle
The Complete Sessions 1962, Coleman Hawkins Quartet

Freedom is Free, Chicano Batman
Rad Gumbo, Little Feat
Retrospective,
Emily Remler
High Lonesome Cowboy, Peter Rowan & Don Edwards
​One on One, Stephane Grappelli & McCoy Tyner

Trouble No More (Bootleg Series), Bob Dylan
Last Days of Oakland, Fantastic Negrito
Scandal,
Soundprints 
One Word, Hillstomp
​Virtuoso,
Joe Pass
Nashville, Bill Frisell
Harmony of Difference, Kamasi Washington
Hudson, Hudson
Trio, Sam Yahel Trio
Stephanova, Stephane Grapelli
Complete Recordings 1953-54, Kenny Drew Trio
Roots, Rosenberg Trio
Freedom Highway, Rhiannon Giddins
Junior's Blues/Happy Time/Big Chief!, Junior Mance Trio
​American Dream, LCD Soundsystem
Hand-crafted Swing, George VanEps & Howard Alden
MoodSwing, Joshua Redman
The Bluegrass Album, Alan Jackson
Apti, Mahanthappa Rudresh's Indo-Pak Coalition
Cosmogram, Hugo Fernandez
​The Journey, Sean Dobbins Organ Quartet
Rights of Swing, Phil Woods
Together at the Bluebird Cafe, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark
The Epic, Kamasi Washington
JJ Cale & Leon Russell at the Paradise Studios, LA 1979, JJ Cale & Leon Russell
Lovers, Nels Cline
Swingin' Stampede, Hot Club of Cowtown
Schmilco, Wilco
22, A Million, Bon Iver
Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula, ​John Zorn

The Fields of November, Norman Blake
The Water is Wide, Charles Lloyd
Rad Gumbo, Little Feat
Alfie, Sonny Rollins
Zodiac Suite: Revisited, Mary Lou Williams Collective
The SteelDrivers, The SteelDrivers
​Suite 4 y 20, Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Resonance, Joe Pass
Top Albums (ongoing list as they occur to me)
London Calling, The Clash
Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix
Rumors, Fleetwood Mac
Monk's Dream, Thelonious Monk
The Wall, Pink Floyd
Kind of Blue, Mile Davis
A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
Greens from the Garden, Corey Harris
​Exodus, Bob Marley  & the Wailers
Burnin', Bob Marley  & the Wailers
Souvenirs, Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
​Full House, Wes Montgomery
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco
​Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
The Complete Recordings, Robert Johnson
​The Infinite, Dave Douglas
​Paradise & Lunch, Ry Cooder
Slant 6 Mind, Greg Brown
Bone Machine, Tom Waits
Paul's Boutique, Bestie Boys
Game Theory, The Roots
​
The Bridge, Sonny Rollins
Live in San Francisco, Tabla Beat Science

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Dave Douglas playing with CSUS Jazz Ensemble (11/10/19)
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