HER BOOKS
Thinking About Memoir
A Three Dog Life: A Memoir
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
An Actual Life
Herb’s Pajamas
Getting Over Tom
Lily
Pearl Paints

THE STACK

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher by Lewis Thomas
Blind Huber: Poems by Nick Flynn
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan

Jennifer shows her grandmother's bookplate from the first edition of "The Catcher in the Rye."

Jennifer Gilmore swears that she has read “at least half” of the David Foster Wallace novel, Infinite Jest, which is a lot more pageage than many owners of the tome can claim.

Not only has she read most of the books that she owns, she identifies many of them as favorites. Given her enthusiasm about the thousand or so books in her library, it’s no exaggeration to say that Jennifer is the quintessential lover of bound books. Years from now, it’s likely she will still own her collection of first editions (including many handed down to her from her grandmother).

Because of her strong connection to books made of paper, Jennifer says she will probably never enjoy reading from an electronic device. “I am so old school,” she says, “I need to physically hold a book in my hand.” The idea of bound books becoming obsolete or rare objets that are collected like LP’s, she says, “would make me so sad.”

“These are such an important part of my life.” she says, pointing to a pile of books on her table. Her gesture carries a sense of protectiveness, as well as pride, towards her keep.

Her nostalgia for books in the face of their possible demise does not make her any less realistic about the fact that eBooks are on the rise. She expresses her concern that if publishers produce more eBooks than bound books, the high cost of eReaders would prevent people without the means to buy the gadgets from reading. So the egalitarian in her also resists the notion, for now, that paper books will become rare or obsolete.

Jennifer Gilmore’s first novel, Golden Country, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2006, and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her work has appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies including Allure, BookForum, The Los Angeles Times, Nerve, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Self, The Seattle Weekly and Salon. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

In America: A Novel by Susan Sontag
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz
The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories by Grace Paley
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams by Rich Cohen

Joe Gould’s Secret by Joseph Mitchell

Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen

Negotiate This!: By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much by Herb Cohen

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer

Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas

Israel Is Real by Rich Cohen

The Long Haul by Amanda Stern

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Driving the Heart and Other Stories by Jason Brown

Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Neuroses in Clinical Practice by Henry P. Laughlin

Influence by Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen

The Stacked Up Team is excited to bring the series to a wider audience. When we launched this site in the fall of 2009, one of our goals was to bring the show to television. A second goal was to watch Stacked Up in the back of a taxi. We’re thrilled that both have become a reality, since NYC Life recently launched a second channel on Taxi TV. We’re also thrilled to be the only program about writers and books in the NYC Life lineup this season.

Here’s the Stacked Up TV Schedule:

Where: NYC Life, Channel 25 (see carrier listing)
Premiere: Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 10:30 p.m.
Re-encores: Fridays at 10 p.m., Saturdays at 10 p.m.
Daytime re-encores: Varying week to week

If you’ve never traveled to Channel 25 on the television dial before, you’ll be surprised to find a trove of great shows produced by and for New Yorkers. NYC Life Explores art and culture, entertainment and lifestyle, history and education in New York City.  The channel is managed by NYC Media, part of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the official TV, radio and online network of New York City.

Music is an important element of Stacked Up TV.  Arthur Yoria’s energetic riff from the song, “I Told You Not To Write Again,” sets the perfect tone at the open of each episode. Other artists who have generously donated their sounds include Kaiser Cartel, Lee Bob Watson, Aaron Ross, TRANSpHaT, and The Celebrity Pilots (courtesy of Sunken Treasure Records). We thank each of our featured artists for allowing us to use their work, and encourage you to explore more of their awesome music!

More Than It Hurts You by Darin Strauss

Forever by Judy Blume

Like Life by Lorrie Moore

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss

The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

Lazy Little Loafers by Susan Orlean

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

Great Plains by Ian Frazier

Avian Medicine by by Branson Ritchie, Greg J. Harrison, Don Zantrop and Linda Harrison

Extra Extraordinary Chickens Stephen Green-Armytage

Keeping Pet Chickens by Johannes Paul

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider

The Guinea Pig Diaries by A. J. Jacobs

Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott

How Zebras Got Their Stripes by Leslie Sims and Laure Fournier

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Britannica Student Encyclopedia (16 vol.) by multiple authors

The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs

The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs

Reading the Bible Again For the First Time by Marcus J. Borg

Holy Bible by multiple authors

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman