Coming in a little late but really excited to share Emma Duffy-Comparone’s to-read pile this month! Her amazing short story collection, Love Like That, just came out and should be on everyone’s shelf. Here’s what she’s reaching for these days.
How Fiction Works, James Wood
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield
The Untethered Soul, Michael Alan Singer
Radical Compassion, Tara Brach
Fleabag: The Scriptures, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Rabbit Angstrom, John Updike
Buddha’s Brain, Rick Hanson
feeld, Jos Charles
The Tradition, Jericho Brown
An American Sunrise, Joy Harjo
We Run the Tides, Vendela Vida
The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Are You Enjoying?, Mira Sethi
My to-read piles are officially bicoastal for the moment. And all my West Coast books are from the library (I definitely went to town). Despite my crazy list of new titles, I did take a good chunk of out my to-read pile last month. So I have my East Coast and West Coast piles, respectively:
– NEWIES –
The Divorce, César Aria (trans. Chris Andrews)
Self-Portrait in Bloom, Niloufar Talebi (meant to list last month!)
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, Adrienne Mayor
Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames, Lara Maiklem
The Odyssey, Homer (trans. Emily Wilson)
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks, Angela Jackson
The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
The Atmospherians, Alex McElroy
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings, Zitkala-Ša
Socialist Realism, Trisha Low
Mend, Kwoya Fagin Maples
Augustus, John Williams
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, Shokoofeh Azar
Sonata, Andrea Avery
The Unreality of Memory, Elisa Gabbert
Broken Places & Outer Spaces, Nnedi Okorafor
Promethea, Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray
– OLDIES –
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks; The Red Parts, Maggie Nelson (re-read); The Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso (re-read); Remembrances, Mir Taqi Mir (trans. C.M. Naim); After the Stroke, May Sarton; Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition, Lisa Fishman; Underworld Lit, Srikanth Reddy; Letters to Memory, Karen Tei Yamashita; Sometimes I Never Suffered, Shane McCrae; Hoarders, Kate Durbin; A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, Hoa Nguyen; The Groundhog Forever, Henry Hoke; Personhood, Thalia Field; Be Holding, Ross Gay; Pricks in the Tapestry, Jameson Fitzpatrick; What Doesn’t Kill You, Tessa Miller; Voices in the Evening, Natalie Ginzburg (trans. D.M. Low)
