Farooq Ahmed, author of the very recently published and rad novel Kansastan, shares his fab to-read pile for the month of October. Check it out:
At a residency. My book pile is a little different here (and there are several more books en route).
– RESIDENCY BOOKS [not all hyperlinked as time is precious] –
Animal, Dorothea Lasky; Homesick, Jennifer Croft; The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde; The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú; On Being Ill, Virginia Wolff; Discipline and Punish, Foucault; Time Is The Thing A Body Moves Through, T. Fleischmann; Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma; Joy Enough, Sarah McColl; Mend, Kwoya Fagin Maples; The Tree Witch, Peter Viereck (on the shelf here, looks apt for October); The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk; No Archive Will Restore You, Julietta Singh; The Complete Illuminated Books, William Blake, Queer Blake, ed. Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly; William Blake and Gender, Mangus Ankarsjö, Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot
– WAITING FOR ME AT HOME [and probably many more I’ve forgotten — I know Farooq’s book is there!] –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Potted Meat, Steven Dunn; Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado; Motion Studies, Jena Osman; The Winter Garden Photograph, Reina María Rodríguez (trans. Kristin Dykstra); Still Nowhere an Empty Vastness, Roberto Tejada; The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, Katya Apekina; Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener