Abramović, Marina. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir. New York: Crown Archetype, 2016. Abramović is my favorite artist, and I pre-ordered this book as soon as I heard about it via her Facebook page. I love how she inserts her body into her work, insisting that art is always in some way autobiographical. I am excitedContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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Books Acquired Recently: Mostly Lois Braun Edition
Baker, Nicholson. Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids. New York: Blue Rider Press, 2016. Baker is one of my favorite authors, and when I saw a short review of his latest book in the New Yorker I went out and bought it right away at my local Barnes & Noble (only because thereContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Mostly Lois Braun Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Keillor, Garrison. Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon. New York: Viking, 2008. I enjoy Keillor’s fiction and almost bought this book when it first came out. There have been a number of times in the intervening years when I wished I had bought it, and then yesterday I was browsing in the public library inContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. 1992. New York: Penguin Books, 2016. I had heard of this novel before, but did not become interested in it until I recently read Ann Cvetkovich’s discussion of it in An Archive of Feelings. I did not realize that Allison is a queer writer, and I look forward toContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Lin-Greenberg, Karin. Faulty Predictions. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. Lin-Greenberg gave a reading of her short stories at Utica College this afternoon, and I enjoyed it enough that I decided to buy her collection. She seems like a good person and her stories do a great job picking out quirky moments in regular people’sContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Cvetkovich, Ann. An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. I have become very interested in the concept of the archive recently. As part of my reading about it I encountered a citation to Cvetkovich’s book and it sounded interesting, so I decided to buy it. It,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Bergen, David. Stranger. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. David Bergen has been one of my favorite writers since I first encountered his work in college, and I have all of his books. While I have not liked much of his recent work in comparison to how I feel about his early books, he is still someoneContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Book Acquired Recently: Keith Miller’s The Sins of Angels
Miller, Keith. The Sins of Angels. Hornsea, UK: PS Publishing, 2016. Keith Miller is one of the first, if not the first, Mennonite writers to write speculative fiction (since he began publishing a few others–Sofia Samatar, Corey Redekop, André Swartley–have also ventured into the speculative realm). His two previous novels, The Book of Flying andContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Keith Miller’s The Sins of Angels”
Books Acquired Recently: Desk Copy Edition
With the new semester set to start in little more than a week, I have acquired desk copies from publishers for some of my courses. In the case of Abeng and Nervous Conditions I have older editions that are now out of print (they were texts that I was assigned as a student and amContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Desk Copy Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: More Mennonites Edition
I’ve spent the entire summer reading, thinking, and writing about Mennonite literature, which I have come to realize is now my primary field of study. As a part of this studying I’ve been reading a lot of Mennonite literary criticism, which has been tremendously enriching. The one problem with reading literary criticism, though, is thatContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: More Mennonites Edition”
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