I attended the 2024 Modern Language Association annual convention in Philadelphia this past week. As usual, I bought a number of texts at the book fair:
Awkward-Rich, Cameron. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Castillo, Ana. Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home. New York: HarperVia, 2023.
Chen, Mel Y., Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, and Julie Avril Minich, eds. Crip Genealogies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Choi, Franny. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Poems. New York: Ecco, 2022.
Gornick, Vivian, ed. The Best American Essays 2023. New York: Mariner Books, 2023.
Heti, Sheila. Pure Colour. 2022. New York: Picador, 2023.
Hilderbrand, Lucas. The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Rodríguez, Juana María. Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818. Edited by Michael Bérubé. New York: W.W. Norton, 2021.
Singh, Julietta. No Archive Will Restore You. N.p.: Punctum Books, 2018.
Daniel Shank Cruz 