Kenji Liu, the author of the amazing and recently published Monsters I Have Been from Alice James Books, shares his September to-read pile with us:
Bodega, Su Hwang
Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene, ed. Linda Russo & Marthe Reed
(the other house), Rocío Carlos
The Bees Make Money in the Lion, Lo Kwa Mei-en
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
I am shocked—shocked!—at my own ability to keep myself from buying books this month. Only one new book! I really need to read these prose books. They’re so big! Eep.
– NEWIES –
All Things Lose Thousands of Times, Angela Peñaredondo
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Experiments in Joy, Gabrielle Civil; Potted Meat, Steven Dunn; The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde; Joy Enough, Sarah McColl; The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú; Book of Scab, Danielle Pafunda; Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado; Motion Studies, Jena Osman; The Winter Garden Photograph, Reina María Rodríguez (trans. Kristin Dykstra); Little Birds, Anaïs Nin; Still Nowhere an Empty Vastness, Roberto Tejada; 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; Animal, Dorothea Lasky; Homesick, Jennifer Croft; Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener; Warnings from the Future, Ethan Chatagnier; A Prayer for Travelers, Ruchika Tomar; Be Recorder, Carmen Giménez Smith