Ingrid Rojas Contreras generously is sharing her to-read pile this month. If you have not read her debut incredible novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, go fix that post-haste.
My reignited interest in long prose and fiction is really changing things up. The struggle/glory continues:
– NEWIES –
G, Emmalea Russo
Severance, Ling Ma
Why Can’t It Be Tenderness, Michelle Brittan Rosado
Motherhood, Sheila Heti
Junk, Tommy Pico
Sueños y Pesadillas/Dreams and Nightmares, Dalia Rosetti (trans. Alexis Almeida)
A Cruelty Special to Our Species, Emily Jungmin Yoon
The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; Confessions, St. Augustine; To Float in the Space Between, Terrance Hayes; God Was Right, Diana Hamilton; Selected Essays of Montaigne, trans. John Florio; Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, Peter Balakian; Known and Strange Things, Teju Cole; Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar (trans. Grace Frick); The Blue Clerk, Dionne Brand; Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly, Joshua Rivkin (in progress)
