I turned 40 yesterday (a wonderful day despite its apocalyptic setting), and received a handful of books as gifts, which is nice considering the current importance of staying isolated. All except for Tarot for Self-Care (at least as far as I know) are by queer authors, and it was given to me by someone whoContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Birthday Gift Edition”
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Books Acquired Recently
Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven. 2014. New York: Vintage Books, 2015. I bought this book two days ago at my local Barnes & Noble because I recently read an interesting interview with Mandel in Poets & Writers and then saw a number of people on Twitter saying that Station Eleven describes a situation veryContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Book Acquired Recently: Stephen Beachy’s Gonzalo Vega and the Portal Down Below
Beachy, Stephen. Gonzalo Vega and the Portal Down Below. Amish Terror Book 3. San Diego: Vapor Books, 2019. Queer Mennonite writer extraordinaire Stephen Beachy’s third Amish science fiction novel came out in December, and I just finally got my copy yesterday. It was originally supposed to be the final book in the Amish Terror series,Continue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Stephen Beachy’s Gonzalo Vega and the Portal Down Below”
Books Acquired Recently
Phillips, Adam. Monogamy. 1996. New York: Vintage Books, 1997. I’ve been reading a lot about various relationship models lately and have seen Phillips’s book referenced several times, so I decided to check it out for myself. The fact that it is still in print nearly twenty-five years after it was first published is a goodContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Buller, Rachel Epp, and Kerry Fast, eds. Mothering Mennonite. Bradford, ON: Demeter Press, 2013. I heard about this book when it came out, but only recently learned that it contains a number of essays by Mennonite literary figures. I bought it for this reason. McKay, Claude. Romance in Marseille. New York: Penguin Books, 2020. IContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: All Queer Edition
Brolaski, Julian T. Gowanus Atropolis. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011. Someone on one of the panels I attended at the recent MLA Convention mentioned this book and the title stuck in my head. Then about a week ago I was reading Heid E. Erdrich’s anthology New Poets of Native Nations, which includes some poems fromContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: All Queer Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: MLA Edition
This past week I attended the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, which was held in Seattle this year. One of my favorite aspects of going to MLA is browsing the book fair, which usually has a good mix of academic and commercial publishers represented. Almost all of the publishers have sales and some giveContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: MLA Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Gifts Edition
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”
Books Acquired Recently: Queer Latinx Edition
Anzaldúa, Gloria. The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader. Ed. AnaLouise Keating. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. I’ve been reading Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas, which is amazing, so I want to explore more of her work. I am often skeptical of authors’ “Readers” because I would rather read work in its original context, but Anzaldúa’s Reader includes a lotContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Queer Latinx Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: All Queer Edition
Johnson, E. Patrick. Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. I love the pieces of Johnson’s work that I have previously read–he may be the most important currently active black queer academic–and ordered this book as soon as it came out. Menon, Alok V. Femme in Public. N.p.: AlokContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: All Queer Edition”
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