Read and Appreciated in 2003
A Year’s Best List
- The Symbolist Movement in Literature, Arthur Symons
- Saucer Wisdom, Rudy Rucker
- The Torture Garden, Octave Mirbeau
- Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
- A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay
- No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain
- The King in the Tree, Steven Millhauser
- As Above, So Below, Rudy Rucker
- Fable for Another Time, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Lanark, Alasdair Gray
- Cannon-Fodder, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- The Golden Age of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Nicholas Hewitt
- The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark
- Stories and Remarks, Raymond Queneau
- Cigar-Box Faust, Michael Swanwick
- Sébastien Roch, Octave Mirbeau
- Album Zutique #1, Jeff VanderMeer (ed.)
- Critical Essays on Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William K. Buckley
- The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, Alexander Theroux
- The Disinherited, Jack Conroy
- Reading the Bones, Sheila Finch
- Hortense is Abducted, Jacques Roubaud
- The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances, Peter Beagle
- Fancy Goods/Open All Night, Paul Morand
- The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong, Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
- Let’s Murder the Moonshine, F.T. Marinetti
- Hell, Henri Barbusse
- American Hardcore: A Tribal History, Steven Blush
- Hortense in Exile, Jacques Roubaud
- The Complete Butcher’s Tales, Rikki Ducornet
- Truth, Émile Zola
- The Skrayling Tree, Michael Moorcock
- From Absinthe to Abyssinia, Arthur Rimbaud
- The Story of King Kabul the First and Gawain the Kitchen-Boy, Max Jacob
- Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones, Dee Dee Ramone
- Legend of a Rock Star: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone
- Hardcore Zen, Punk Rock, Monster Movies & the Truth About Reality, Brad Warner
- The Life of Céline, Nicholas Hewitt
- Understanding Céline, Philip H. Solomon
- The Clash, David Quantick
- The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories, Marcel Schwob
- A Célinian Trove: Elizabeth Craig’s Jewelry Box, Alphonse Juilland
- Phosphor in Dreamland, Rikki Ducornet
- On Board the Morning Star, Pierre Mac Orlan
- The Conquerors, André Malraux
- A Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna & Five British Dinosaurs, Michael Swanwick
- Language and Narration in Céline’s Writing, Ian Noble
- Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini
- Céline and the Politics of Difference, Rosemarie Scullion
- The Word “Desire”, Rikki Ducornet
- Mea Culpa, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Candide, Voltaire
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
- The Writer, Zoran Živković
- Millennium People, J.G. Ballard
- Impossible Encounters, Zoran Živković
- Steps Through the Mist, Zoran Živković
- Seven Touches of Music, Zoran Živković
- Elephant House or, the Home of Edward Gorey, Kevin McDermott
- Punk Rock: So What? The Cultural Legacy of Punk, Roger Sabin
- Selected Writings, Gérard de Nerval
- The Library, Zoran Živković
- Time-Gifts, Zoran Živković
- Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond, John Maizels
- Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, Brendan Mullen
- This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
- Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution, Stephan Colgrave & Chris Sullivan
- The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Man Without Qualities, Volume One, Robert Musil
- Selections, André Breton
- Scaramouche, Rafael Sabatini
- My Childhood, Maxim Gorky
- Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime, François Eugène Vidocq
- Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Authorised Biography, Mark Paytress
- Leviathan 4, Forrest Aguirre (ed.)
Allan Kausch is an editor, surreal collagist and author from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has had a handful of shows of his original collages, and is the author of five books: Voyage of Exile, Blackberry Castle, The Wax Baby, Fetch the Stick Dog and Remorse Code and Other Tantrums. A devoted Dickhead, he organized the massive preproduction of the six volumes of the Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick. Until recently he worked as the Continuity Editor for Lucasfilm Ltd., serving as the Star Wars expert under George Lucas, and he received the Harvey and Eisner awards for his editing of Star Wars comic-books. He is now pursuing a freelance existence.
Copyright © 2003 by Allan Kausch.





