Author of the newly published short story collection Sarahland (which I have, and cannot wait to crack open), Sam Cohen is sharing her to-read pile with us this month:
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, Sarah Schulman
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, eds. Natalie West and Tina Horn
Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami (trans. Sam Bett, David Boyd)
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
Sula, Toni Morrison
Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald
Girlhood, Melissa Febos
When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution, Jeanna Córdova
Gathering Moss, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Make Your Art No Matter What, Beth Pickens
100 Boyfriends, Brontez Purnell (sought for for hours, not pictured, but here in spirit)
March ended up harder than February reading-wise. The cruelest month is ahead of me, but these books aren’t going to read themselves. But the stack is definitely in “uh-oh” territory. Hopefully I’ll be able to dive in soon.
– NEWIES –
Sarahland, Sam Cohen (hooray!!)
Antonio, Beatriz Bracher (trans. Adam Morris)
The Living Method, Sarah Nicholson
Scardanelli, Friederike Mayröcker (trans. Jonathan Larson)
Letters to Memory, Karen Tei Yamashita
Sometimes I Never Suffered, Shane McCrae
Fieldglass, Catherine Pond
Hoarders, Kate Durbin
Giant Moth Perishes, Geoffrey Nutter
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, Hoa Nguyen
Sho, Douglas Kearney
The Gentle Barbarian, Bohumil Hrabal (trans. Paul Wilson)
– OLDIES –
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks; Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (in-progress); Dream of Europe, Audre Lorde; The Red Parts, Maggie Nelson (re-read); The Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso (re-read); Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer; Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, Jeannie Vanasco; Pigeons on the Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen (trans. Michael Hoffman); Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam; Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi; Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones); Remembrances, Mir Taqi Mir (trans. C.M. Naim); Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique (in-progress); After the Stroke, May Sarton; Curb, Divya Victor; All the Rage, Rosamond S. King; Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition, Lisa Fishman; Underworld Lit, Srikanth Reddy; Forgotten Journey, Silvina Ocampo (trans. by Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan); Natural Birth, Toi Derricotte