Jamel Brinkley, author of the recently published A Lucky Man, is kindly sharing his exciting to-read stack with us this month. A few titles that technically aren’t out yet! This gives you a glimpse.
Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Registers of Illuminated Villages, Tarfia Faizullah
Air Traffic, Gregory Pardlo
Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston
If You Leave Me, Crystal Hana Kim
Indecency, Justin Phillip Reed
Last Stories, William Trevor
Mem, Bethany C. Morrow
She Would Be King, Wayétu Moore
House of Stone, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Number One Chinese Restaurant, Lillian Li
As for me, for the first time in my life I am entirely caught up on my New Yorkers. That side to-read pile you never see. I’m generally three months behind. This is a big life-win.
So, good news is I reorganized my bookshelves. Bad/double-good news is this makes tons of room for my to-read pile to expand. So many thick spines glaring at me this month…
– NEWIES –
Trophic Cascade, Camille Dungy
Don’t Call Us Dead, Danez Smith
This Little Art, Kate Briggs
The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, Carl Jung
Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib
The Soluble Hour, Hillary Gravendyk
The Real Horse, Farid Matuk
Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, Peter Balakian
Passage to Ararat, Michael J. Arlen (in-progress)
– OLDIES –
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond; Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Buck Studies, Douglas Kearney; The Blue and Brown Books, Wittgenstein; Confessions, St. Augustine; The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; The School Among the Ruins, Adrienne Rich; Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, Selah Saterstrom; Experience in Groups, Geoffrey G. O’Brien; Tela de Sevoya / Onioncloth, Myriam Moscona (trans. Antena aka Jen Hofer and John Pluecker) (in-progress); In the Language of My Captor, Shane McCrae; The Four Seasons, Brandon Brown; The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks, Joshua Beckman; SPQR, Mary Beard (in-progress); The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson; The Edge of the Sea, Rachel Carson; Registers of Illuminated Villages, Tarfia Faizullah
