Lisa Locascio, author of the amazing sexy noir bildungsroman debut novel Open Me (out tomorrow!), has shared her to-read pile with us this month.
Disasters in the First World by Olivia Clare
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
Things That Helped by Jessica Friedmann
ActivAmerica by Meagan Cass
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
The Devoted by Blair Hurley
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
Blue Eyes, Black Hair by Marguerite Duras
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
The Deeper The Water The Uglier The Fish by Katya Apekina
Searoad by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Life and Struggles of Out Mother Walatta Petros by Galawdewos (translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner)
Making some headway in my pile (amazingly), adding some things here and there.
– NEWIES –
The Scales, Adam Stutz
A Woman Alone, Amy Lawless
Letters to War and Lethe, Farzana Marie
The Easy Body, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
I’m So Fine, Khadijah Queen
Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of Latin@ Writing, ed. Carmen Giménez Smith and John Chávez
Sheep Machine, Vi Khi Nao
– OLDIES –
The Edge of the Sea, Rachel Carson (in-progress); Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Buck Studies, Douglas Kearney; Confessions, St. Augustine; The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, Carl Jung; They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib; Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang; The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks, Joshua Beckman; The Soluble Hour, Hillary Gravendyk; Beast Meridian, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal; GeNtry!ficaton: or the scene of the crime, Chaun Webster; The Fat Sonnets, Samantha Zighelboim; Red, Chase Berggrum; Spit Temple, Cecilia Vicuña ed. Rosa Alcalá; Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts 1301-1480, ed. Avedis K. Sanjian; Cuntry, Kristin Sanders; Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson; Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, Peter Balakian; Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje