Books Acquired Recently

Cerrone, Matthew. The New York Mets Fans’ Bucket List. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2017.

I received this and Green’s book as gifts from my grandmother-in-law, who knows that I am a huge Mets fan.

Chen, Angela. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex. Boston: Beacon Press, 2020.

I’ve read very little about asexuality in comparison to other queer identities, so I bought this book as a move toward correcting that.

Dawson, Juno. This Book is Gay. Rev. ed. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Fire, 2021.

I’ve been buying and reading queer banned books lately partly to support the authors and partly as research for my job.

Green, David. 101 Reasons to Love the Mets. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008.

Hahn, Kimiko. Foreign Bodies: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 2020.

I’ve enjoyed Hahn’s work since I began getting into poetry two decades ago, but have never acquired one of her books. One of my colleagues is getting rid of a bunch of her books because she is moving, so I got this book and Khatibi’s from her.

Khatibi, Abdelkébir. Class Warrior—Taoist Style. 1976. Trans. Matt Reeck. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2017.

Moss, Jeremiah. Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York. New York: W.W. Norton, 2022.

I encountered a reference to this book in McKenzie Wark’s book Raving, which I’ve been reading this week, and which is fantastic. I decided to buy Moss’s book right away because it sounds amazing.