Pashley, Jennifer. States. Lewiston: Lewis-Clark, 2007.
Pashley gave a reading of her fiction at Utica College last week, and it was one of those experiences where literature provided exactly the message I needed to hear at the time. I am always amazed and grateful when this happens. The reading was powerful enough that I was happy to buy her first book of short stories.
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Davis, James L. Legendary Locals of Greater Utica. Charleston: Arcadia, 2013.
I am still relatively new to Utica, and thus continue to seek out books about it to help orient me to the area. I’ve read some of Davis’s work on the city before and appreciated it, thus decided to buy this book. It will be a helpful resource for learning about the city’s personalities rather than its geography, which I am becoming more and more familiar with.
This and the Toews novel were acquired from amazon.com.
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2014.
I read a review of this book in the New Yorker and it sounded fascinating, so I ordered it from abebooks.com. It’s a book-length poem about continuing instances of racism in America. I’ve already read it, and it was fantastic. I had never encountered Rankine’s work before, but I would now recommend it to anyone.
Toews, Miriam. All My Puny Sorrows. San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2014.
Toews is one of my favorite authors, and I am very excited to read her new novel. I’ve heard very good things about it, and normally wouldn’t have waited several months to acquire it, but the U.S. edition just came out and I was too lazy to try and track down a copy of the Canadian edition online.
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