I’ve been letting my book-buying addiction get the best of me lately, as I’ve ordered about ten books in last week or so. Here is what has come in thus far:
Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. 1999. Durham: Duke UP, 2015.
Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke UP, 2011.
I have been wanting to read more queer theory lately, and then I received an email from Duke University Press (the premier academic publisher of queer texts) that they were have a 30% off sale. Both of these books sounded interesting and relevant to some projects that I’m working on, so I decided to buy them.
Mukherjee, Neel. A Life Apart. 2008. New York: Norton, 2016.
I read a review of this novel in the New Yorker last week and it sounded quite fascinating (apparently much of it takes place in men’s restrooms as the narrator tries to find partners for sex). A few days ago a friend took me book shopping for my birthday, and this is what I chose.
Samatar, Sofia. The Winged Histories. Easthampton: Small Beer, 2016.
Samatar is one of the few Mennonite writers writing speculative fiction. Her new novel just came out and I can’t wait to read it!
Daniel Shank Cruz 