I’ve been a terrible contributor to this amazing community blog. This is how I figured I can best participate–in a way that is simultaneously shameless, shameful, shame-inducing: my to-read pile. Pleasure reading only. I will update (hopefully) monthly. Here goes.
Top to bottom, left to right:
Emergency Brake, Ruth Madievsky
You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be Friends, Dorothy Iannone (ed. Lisa Pearson)
Crave Radiance, Elizabeth Alexander
Sixty Morning Walks, Andy Fitch
Sixty Morning Talks, Andy Fitch
Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction, John Casey
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (my mom’s copy from when she was a kid, discovered while home for the holidays)
Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
The Language of Inquiry, Lyn Hejinian
Inferno, Dante (trans. Mary Jo Bang)
Someone Took They Tongues, Douglas Kearney
Making this list is actually kind of terrifying. It doesn’t seem nearly as long as when I look at the spines. Hopefully I will be shamed into reading some of the titles I have had on my shelf for over a year. Ho boy.