Another holiday season has come and gone, and once again I received a decent number of books as gifts. I also received some cash that I am going to spend at the MLA book fair in Seattle next week. With one exception, the books are either queer or Mennonite, my two main reading areas, andContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Gifts Edition”
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Books Acquired Recently: All Mennonite Edition
Dueck, Nathan. A Very Special Episode. Hamilton, ON: Buckrider Books, 2019. Dueck is a Mennonite poet whom I know and his third collection of poetry just came out. I bought it right away and look forward to reading it. Stoltzfus, Donna J. Captive. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2018. Stolzfus’s family and mine have been friendsContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: All Mennonite Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Enns, Victor. Love & Surgery. Regina, SK: Radiant Press, 2019. Enns has played an important role in the Mennonite literary scene because he was the founder and sometimes editor of Rhubarb, the journal of the Mennonite Literary Society. I have not read his earlier work, which dates back to Turnstone Press’s chapbook days of theContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Mostly 2019 Edition
Hemmings, Clare. Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender. New York: Routledge, 2002. I recently came across a citation of this book and decided to buy it despite its age because I am bisexual and because my research is concerned with space. With the exception of Moore’s book, which I bought directly from theContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Mostly 2019 Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Cruz, Nicky, with Jamie Buckingham. Run Baby Run. 1968. Newberry, FL: Bridge-Logos, 2016. Wilkerson, David, with John Sherrill and Elizabeth Sherrill. The Cross and the Switchblade. 1962. New York: Jove Books, 1977. Mennonites like to play what is known as the “Mennonite Game” whenever we meet a Mennonite whom we haven’t met before. We tryContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Inscribed Copies Edition
Coffman, Lisa. Less Obvious Gods. Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2013. I recently read Coffman’s first poetry collection, Likely, and loved it, so I decided to order her second book. I bought an inscribed copy directly from her website. Kraybill, Donald B. Eastern Mennonite University: A Century of Countercultural Education. University Park: Pennsylvania State UniversityContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Inscribed Copies Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Hobart Book Village Edition
This past weekend I went to the Hobart Book Village in Hobart, New York, for the first time. Hobart is a tiny village in the Catskills, but it has five independent bookstores within two blocks of each other. They all have slightly different specialties and cooperate with each other rather than being competitors. I onlyContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Hobart Book Village Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Ervin Beck Edition
The above photograph shows the 51 books that my former professor Ervin Beck gave me when I visited his home in Goshen, Indiana, last week. I took his Mennonite Literature course my junior year of college and have basically been obsessed with the field since then. He generously let me take a selection of hisContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Ervin Beck Edition”
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
Camp Deerpark. Forever God is Faithful: The Story of Camp Deerpark. Westbrookville, NY: Camp Deerpark/Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 2019. Camp Deerpark is a camp owned by the New York City Mennonite churches. I spent lots of time there as a kid because my parents have always been heavily involved with it (my mom was theContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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