The amazing prose writer Xuan Juliana Wang, author most recently of the gorgeous short story collection Home Remedies (Hogarth), shares her to-read pile with us this month. Swann’s Way is always there, she says. She always keeps trying to start it.
Rabbits for Food, Binnie Kirshenbaum
Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust (trans. Lydia Davis)
The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard
America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo
Transoceanic Lights, S.Li
Mean, Myriam Gurba
A Prayer for Travelers, Ruchika Tomar
Some reading (not enough) and some gaining (not enough):
– NEWIES –
Animal, Dorothea Lasky
Magdalene, Marie Howe
Homesick, Jennifer Croft
Discipline, Dawn Lundy Martin
Be Recorder, Carmen Giménez Smith
Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
Human Tetris, Vi Khi Nao and Ali Raz
Warnings from the Future, Ethan Chatagnier
A Prayer for Travelers, Ruchika Tomar
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Experiments in Joy, Gabrielle Civil; The Lice, W.S. Merwin; Potted Meat, Steven Dunn; The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde; Joy Enough, Sarah McColl; Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love, Anna Moschovakis; Home Remedies, Xuan Juliana Wang (in progress!); The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú; Orient, Nicholas Gulig; Extratransmission, Andrea Abi-Karam; Book of Scab, Danielle Pafunda; Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado; The Interface for a Fractal Landscape, Ed Steck; Motion Studies, Jena Osman; The Winter Garden Photograph, Reina María Rodríguez (trans. Kristin Dykstra); Little Birds, Anaïs Nin; Lo Terciario / The Tertiary, Raquel Salas Rivera; Still Nowhere an Empty Vastness, Roberto Tejada; Sir, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle; Sun at Midnight, Muso Soseki (trans. W.S. Merwin and Soiku Shigematsu, out of print); The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, Katya Apekina
