Jeffrey S. Callico

About Me

Current reading list for 2025:

1. The Other Mrs. - Mary Kubica
2. From Strutter to Last Chance: Finding the Good in 250 KISS Songs - Chris Ward
3. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape - Marc Masters
4. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (stories) - Alan Sillitoe
5. The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
6. Collected Poems - Jack Gilbert
7. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
8. Best European Fiction 2014
9. Verity - Colleen Hoover
10. The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees - Donald Justice (ed.)
11. Always a Reckoning (and Other Poems) - Jimmy Carter
12. Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees - James Reidel
13. Selected Stories of Weldon Kees - Dana Gioia (ed.)
14. Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
15. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary - Sarah Ogilvie
16. Russian Absurd: Selected Writings - Daniil Kharms (Alex Cigale, tr.)
17. Today I Wrote Nothing - The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Matvei Yankelevich, tr.)
18. Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
19. Best European Fiction 2015
20. Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000 – Marvin Bell
21. The Neon Bible - John Kennedy Toole
22. At the End of This Summer: Poems, 1948-1954 - John Haines
23. Oh What a Paradise It Seems - John Cheever
24. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
25. Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward
26. The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation (Anne Waldman, ed.; foreward by Allen Ginsberg)
27. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
28. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
29. Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
30. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Publications:

Oddball Magazine:

https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-jeffrey-s-callico/

A-Minor Magazine:

https://aminormagazine.com/2011/04/

FRiGG Magazine:

https://www.friggmagazine.com/volumeonearchive/passage.htm

https://www.friggmagazine.com/volumeonearchive/thetrainingroom.htm

https://www.friggmagazine.com/volumeonearchive/deathwatch.htm

https://www.friggmagazine.com/volumeonearchive/theride.htm

Johnny America:

https://www.johnnyamerica.com/archives/2005/08/26/17.43.55/ligament_sandwich/

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The Well-Dressed Drunk

https://www.amazon.com/Well-Dressed-Drunk-Jeffrey-Callico/dp/1312969822

Any favorite authors? Books?

John Updike | Raymond Carver | Anne Pyne | Garielle (formerly Gary) Lutz | George Saunders | Sylvia Plath | John Cheever | Joyce Carol Oates | Orhan Pamuk | Annie Dillard | A.R. Ammons | Theodore Roethke | William Stafford | Dallas Wiebe | Gertrude Stein | Daniil Kharms | Robert Bly | John Irving | Elizabeth Bishop | Ben Marcus | Bob Hicok | J.D. Salinger | Anne Sexton | Anton Chekov | Weldon Kees | Gregory Corso | William S. Burroughs | Robert Creeley | Lew Welch | Billy Collins | Lenore Kandel | Alan Sillitoe