My partner and I got married on Friday, and did some shopping at local bookstores with some money we received as a gift to celebrate. Clerc’s, Mandel’s, and Nelson’s books were bought at Little City Books in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the others were bought at the Strand in Manhattan. Baker, Nicholson. Baseless: My SearchContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Wedding Edition”
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Books Acquired Recently: Mostly AWP Edition
This past week I attended the 2022 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference. Here’s what I got at the book fair: Allende, Carlos. Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love. Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2022. This novel has a fantastic title and came with a free t-shirt, so I bought it. I was ableContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Mostly AWP Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Birthday Edition
Yesterday my partner took me to the Strand to buy me some books for my birthday. Here’s what I got: Baraka, Amiri. SOS: Poems 1961-2013. New York: Grove Press, 2014. I love Baraka’s work and have taught it in numerous courses. I already own a number of his books, which is why I didn’t buyContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Birthday Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Queer Edition
Delany, Samuel R. The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch–“Angouleme”. 1978. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2014. —. The Tragedy of Ophelia: Two Essays. N.p.: Samuel R. Delany, 2021. These are the only two of Delany’s nearly fifty books that I did not own until now. I decidedContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Queer Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Hacker, Marilyn. Presentation Piece. New York: Viking, 1974. I was recently reading Samuel R. Delany’s book Occasional Views, Volume 2, which mentions this book of Hacker’s (they were married for a while). It contains some poems about some events he discusses in his memoir, The Motion of Light in Water, so I decided to buyContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Delany, Samuel R. Occasional Views, Volume 2: “The Gamble” and Other Essays. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2021. This collection of essays is dated 2021 but just came out a week or so ago, presumably because of pandemic-related “supply chain issues.” As with Volume 1, it is a fascinating, valuable collection of hard-to-find or previouslyContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Bellamy, Dodie. The TV Sutras. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014. My newfound obsession with Bellamy continues! Nunez, Sigrid. What Are You Going Through. New York: Riverhead Books, 2020. Nunez is teaching at Hunter this semester and is giving a reading tomorrow night. I decided to buy her most recent novel in preparation for the reading.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Lydia Davis Edition
Davis, Lydia. Essays One. 2019. New York: Picador, 2020. —. Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. I love Davis’s Collected Stories, so when I saw it was possible to get free examination copies of these two books of essays at the virtualContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Lydia Davis Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Queer Edition
Bellamy, Dodie. Bee Reaved. South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e), 2021. Bellamy’s latest book is the latest acquisition in my ongoing newfound obsession with her work. I was able to get a signed copy from the Strand. Tea, Michelle. The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America. 1998. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2007. I loveContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Queer Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition
A friend sent me a surprise package of poetry in the mail. Here is what was included: Knippen, James, Sierra Shellabarger, Anirudh Vyas, and Jamie Wimberly. Between Falling Leaves and Their Shadows. Alpharetta, GA: Redheaded Press, 2021. McKibbens, Rachel. blud. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2017. Ross, Noah. Active Reception. New York: Nightboat Books,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”
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