So excited to share Muriel Leung‘s to-read pile(s) this month! Muriel is the author of the recently published Imagine Us, The Swarm out from Nightboat. She lets us know the books she has recently read and wants to read, as well as a few others not pictured.
Recently Read
all about love by bell hooks
How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Thresholes by Lara Mimosa Montes
Cleave by Tiana Nobile
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
book of the other by Truong Tran
Black Futures edited by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham
Not pictured
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
You’re the Only Friend I Need by Alejandro Heredia
Mother Tongue by Chaelee Dalton
( ghost gestures ) by Gabrielle Civil
To-Read
the monumental misrememberings by Mimi Tempestt
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by AnaÏs Duplan
Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women edited by Asian Women United of California
Becoming Human by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
Racial Things, Racial Forms by Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
Wild Peach by S*an D. Henry-Smith
Moonflower, Nightshades, All the Hours of the Day by JD Scott
Sarahland by Sam Cohen
Ensō by Shin Yu Pai
My two piles are finally living together! But now I really am seeing just how many books I want to read. Eep.
– NEWIES –
Evie Shockley, Semiautomatic
Joseph N. Straus, Extraordinary Measures: Disability in Music
Jane Lapotaire, Time Out of Mind
Harald Voetmann, Awake (trans. Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen)
Najwan Darwish, Embrace (trans. Atef Alshaer and Paul Batchelor)
Sandra Lim, The Curious Thing
Ari Banias, A Symmetry
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
Muriel Leung, Imagine Us, The Swarm (hooray!)
Gabrielle Civil, ( ghost gestures )
– OLDIES –
The Divorce, César Aria (trans. Chris Andrews), Self-Portrait in Bloom, Niloufar Talebi, A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks, Angela Jackson, American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings, Zitkala-Ša, Socialist Realism, Trisha Low, Mend, Kwoya Fagin Maples, Augustus, John Williams 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); Toni Morrison, Sula; Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise; Dag Solstad, Novel 11, Book 18 (trans. Sverre Lyngstad)
