Over the past few months publishers have sent me a number of desk copies for my Fall 2019 courses. For First-Year Composition: Blanco, Richard. The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood. 2014. New York: Ecco, 2015. Irby, Samantha. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays. New York: Vintage Books, 2017. Knisley, Lucy. Relish:Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Desk Copy Edition”
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Books Acquired Recently
Loewen, Mary Ann, ed. Finding Father: Stories from Mennonite Daughters. Regina, SK: University of Regina Press, 2019. I pre-ordered this book from amazon.ca as soon as I could because it includes a number of chapters by authors involved with Mennonite literature. It came in the mail earlier this week. Weinberg, Jonathan. Pier Groups: Art andContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
I received two books in the mail today that I’m quite excited to read. They are both by authors whose previous work I find powerful. Levins Morales, Aurora. Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals. Revised and Expanded ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. I’ve read some of Levins Morales’s poetry but have not previously encounteredContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: All Queer Edition
Browne, Kath, Jason Lim, and Gavin Brown, eds. Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. I am thinking about a project on queer space in fiction and am thus looking for theory on queer geography. This collection looks like it will be a good start. I purchased it from ThriftbooksContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: All Queer Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Jones, Feminista. Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World From the Tweets to the Streets. Boston: Beacon Press, 2019. I received an email about this book from the publisher and ordered an exam copy because it looks like it might be appropriate for several of my courses. Snow, Cassandra. Queering the Tarot.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Metonymy Press Edition
Nixon, Lindsay. nîtisânak. Montreal: Metonymy Press, 2018. I recently read a review of this hybrid memoir and it sounded fascinating so I decided to buy it. I ordered it directly from Metonymy Press, and while I was on their website I discovered several other intriguing items (well, more than several–they are an explicitly queer press, afterContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Metonymy Press Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Delany, Samuel R. Voyage, Orestes! [A Surviving Novel Fragment]. Whitmore Lake, MI: Bamberger Books, 2019. This fragment of Delany’s legendary long-lost novel just came out. As I’ve written here a number of times before, I am obsessed with his work, so I purchased it immediately from amazon.com. Gatchalian, C.E. Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and theContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: AWP Edition
This morning I got back from the 2019 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Portland. It was a fantastic time! I saw some authors that I love and encountered some new writers whose work I cannot wait to check out. As usual when I go to conferences, the bookfair was a highlightContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: AWP Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Birthday Edition
I turned 39 on Thursday and got two books as gifts. Choi, Franny. Floating, Brilliant, Gone. Austin, TX: Write Bloody Publishing, 2014. I tore through this collection over the past two days. It is excellent! Feminist and queer. One neat feature is that some of the poems are illustrated; it’s neo-Blakean. Dunn, Mark. Ella MinnowContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Birthday Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Bellatin, Mario. The Large Glass: Three Autobiographies. Trans. David Shook. Los Angeles: Phoneme Media, 2015. I heard about Bellatin, whose work is mostly only available in Spanish, at MLA a few weeks ago and he sounded intriguing, so I decided to buy the one book of his I could find in English. I bought thisContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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