I already had the most recent editions (and thus the ones that are in print that the campus bookstore can order for students) of most of the books that I’ll be teaching this semester. The Harper and Larsen are for an African American literature course, and the Whitehead is for a Literature of New YorkContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Desk Copy Edition”
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Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Edition
I’ve acquired a number of books over the past few weeks. Most of them (the ones without their provenance listed) have been gifts, though a few I’ve bought for gifts to myself to read over the semester break. Ballard, J.G. Cocaine Nights. 1996. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998. Ballard is an author that I love toContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Edition”
Book Acquired Recently: Jennifer Pashley’s States
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 wasContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Jennifer Pashley’s States”
Book Acquired Recently: Rudy Wiebe’s Come Back
Wiebe, Rudy. Come Back. Toronto: Knopf, 2014. Rudy Wiebe has been an important author in my life, and of course he is one of the most influential Mennonite writers ever, so when his new novel came out I was eager to purchase it. It hasn’t been published in the U.S. yet, but I was ableContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Rudy Wiebe’s Come Back”
Books Acquired Recently
Blake, William. Blake. Ed. Ruthven Todd. New York: Dell, 1960. Browning, Robert. Browning. Ed. Reed Whittemore. New York: Dell, 1960. Herbert, George. Herbert. Ed. Dudley Fitts. New York: Dell, 1962. Herrick, Robert. Herrick. Ed. William Jay Smith. New York: Dell, 1962. Jonson, Ben. Ben Jonson. Ed. John Hollander. New York: Dell, 1961. Keats, John. Keats.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Book Acquired Recently: Women in Clothes
Heti, Sheila, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Sharpton, eds. Women in Clothes. New York: Blue Rider, 2014. I read a review of this book in BookForum and thought it sounded amazing, so I bought it from one of amazon.com’s independent sellers. It is the results of a survey the editors did of women about clothing. TheContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Women in Clothes”
Book Acquired Recently: Motion: American Sports Poems
Blaustein, Noah, ed. Motion: American Sports Poems. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2001. One of my colleagues is teaching a course on sports and literature this semester, and was telling me about this anthology, which is one of the course texts. It sounded interesting enough that I decided to buy a copy from theContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Motion: American Sports Poems”
Book Acquired Recently: Adirondack Ghosts II
Macken, Lynda Lee. Adirondack Ghosts II: Haunting Tales of New York’s North Country. Forked River: Black Cat, 2003. This evening the old Utica psychiatric hospital (“Old Main”) was open for tours for the first time in several years, and I went with some friends. I was excited to see inside of the building (which isContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Adirondack Ghosts II”
Books Acquired Recently
Bechdel, Alison. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. 2012. Boston: Mariner, 2013. I will be teaching Bechdel’s book about her father, Fun Home, in one of my classes this fall, and as preparation for this I acquired Are You My Mother?, which is her book about her mother. If it is even half asContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Book Acquired Recently: Mary McCarthy’s The Group
McCarthy, Mary. The Group. Orlando: Harvest, 1989. I just won this book in a raffle at the Utica Public Library. I haven’t read any of McCarthy’s work before, but the raffle ticket was free with my purchase at a local coffeehouse. The novel’s blurb is an enticing one, and apparently it is scandalous enough thatContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Mary McCarthy’s The Group”
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