Songs of 2012 - Counting Days

You want to make me spin. You want to hold me in.

The AV CLUB gave 'pop-culture gifts' this year. If I had a job there and someone asked me to contribute to their list, I'd say, "Give people Women's Public Strain, now!"

Songs of 2012 - Ex-Dreams

don't ask

Songs of 2012 - Walkin' Down My Street

I don't care if you see my cryin' or bleed, I just need you baby.

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Stuart Dybek - The Coast of Chicago

Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio - The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui

David Bezmozgis - Natasha

Ernest Hemingway - The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Agota Kristof - The Notebook

Sergio de la Pava - A Naked Singularity

Franz Kafka - The Trial

Alice Munro - Runaway

Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children

David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

Jerzy Kosinski - The Painted Bird

John Steinbeck - The Pearl

Songs of 2012 - Larry Bird

I done three-wheeled and jumped off a diving board

Songs of 2012 - Kill For Love

A stellar record, but looong. 

Everybody's got a secret to hide