My newfound obsession with Dodie Bellamy’s work continues! These three books are the latest additions to my collection of her work. Bellamy, Dodie. Cunt-Ups. 2001. New York: Tender Buttons Press, 2018. —. Cunt Norton. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2013. Bellamy, Dodie, and Kevin Killian, eds. Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997. NewContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Dodie Bellamy Edition”
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Books Acquired Recently: Wedding Edition
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”
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”
My Interview with Samuel R. Delany
A few weeks ago I had the honor of interviewing Samuel R. Delany for the Dangerous Visions: Radical Science Fiction virtual symposium, which was sponsored by City Lights Bookstore and PM Press. We talked a lot about his most recent books, but also discussed some of his early career as well. You can watch theContinue reading “My Interview with Samuel R. Delany”
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”
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