Shift Five: 100 Pushups

Books 2012

14. Role Models - John Waters
13. Tales From the Indiana Hoosiers' Locker Room - John Laskowski with Stan Sutton
12. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
11. Pulphead: Essays - John Jeremiah Sullivan
10. Pastoralia - George Saunders
9. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
8. When the Killing's Done - T.C. Boyle
7. Nightwoods - Charles Frazier
6. Nobody Move - Denis Johnson
5. Songs of Unreason - Jim Harrison
4. Guided By Voices: A Brief History - James Greer
3. Crimes in Southern Indiana - Frank Bill
2. The Outlaw Album - Daniel Woodrell
1. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Books 2011

26. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
25. A Widow's Story - Joyce Carol Oates
24. 40 Stories - Donald Barthelme
23. Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
22. Volt - Alan Heathcock
21. Fun With Problems - Robert Stone
20. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
19. The Ticking is the Bomb - Nick Flynn
18. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
17. Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
16. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt
15. Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
14. Old School - Tobias Wolff
13. Blazing Saddles - Matt Rendell
12. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - Yukio Mishima
11. Point Omega - Don DeLillo
10. War - Sebastian Junger
9. Tomato Red - Daniel Woodrell
8. The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
7. The Art of Non-Conformity - Chris Guillebeau
6. Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone
5. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It - Maile Meloy
4. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
3. White Noise - Don DeLillo
2. Eating the Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman
1. A Secret Gift - Ted Gup

Books 2010

36. Tinkers - Paul Harding
35. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
34. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
33. Look at the Birdie - Kurt Vonnegut
32. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
31. House of Meetings - Martin Amis
30. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
29. Button, Button - Richard Matheson
28. End Zone - Don DeLillo
27. Tour de France Travel Guide - Graham Watson
26. A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
25. A Dog in a Hat - Joe Parkin
24. Peace - Richard Bausch
23. Hammer of the Gods - Stephen Davis
22. A Box of Matches - Nicholson Baker
21. Union Atlantic - Adam Haslett
20. Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
19. The Signal - Ron Carlson
18. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
17. Columbine - Dave Cullen
16. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City - Nick Flynn
14. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
13. The Last Dickens - Matthew Pearl
12. The 25th Hour - David Benioff
11. Women - Charles Bukowski
10. The Tortilla Curtain - T. C. Boyle
9. Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
7. Where Men Win Glory - Jon Krakauer
6. The English Major - Jim Harrison
5. The Stranger - Albert Camus
4. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
3. Falling Man - Don DeLillo
2. So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell
1. Shop Class as Soulcraft - Matthew B. Crawford

Books 2009

13. The Basketball Diaries - Jim Carroll
12. The Beautiful Miscellaneous - Dominic Smith
11. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
10. Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson
9. When the Nines Roll Over - David Benioff
8. Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
6. Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell
5. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
4. City of Thieves - David Benioff
3. Blazing Saddles - Matt Rendell
2. Roomanitarian - Henry Rollins
1. Kiss or Kill - Mark Twight

A Slice

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation...If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.

from Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, 1849

Shift Five

Monday, February 28, 2011

100 Pushups

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