currently reading: Fraud by Anita Brookner
books bought Toppatakin alla on sydän by Tuija Hannula (rough translation: There’s a heart under the winter coat) A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by...
just finished: Being a Beast by Charles Foster
books bought Fraud by Anita Brookner Letters from London by Julian Barnes books borrowed & received Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide by...
currently reading: Y/N by Esther Yi
books purchased Lise Lillywhite by Margery Sharp Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes Sculptor’s Daughter: A Childhood Memoir by Tove Jansson, trans. Kingsley...
currently reading: Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
books bought: NONE! But I have pre-ordered the following: All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld (out 4/2) Great Expectations...
currently reading: nothing relevant to the subject of this newsletter, which is policing & mental illness
books & publications referenced and/or that have helped shape my ideas on the subject “Waking Rip van Winkle: Why Developments in the Last 20 Years Should...
selected book pics, 2014-2019
Hey you, I have like hundreds of book pics on my phone. Also I have photos on my phone dating back to the year 2014. (#doublebrag!!!) Below you’ll find a...
selected reading, graphic novels/nonfiction/etc, 2009-2019
Yours by Sarah Ferrick (she goes by Margot Ferrick now) Suggested talking points: whether it’s OK to email a tattoo artist and say “can you give me a tattoo...
currently reading: Females by Andrea Long Chu
books bought The Book of Daniel by Aaron SmithFemales by Andrea Long Chu books received Excellent Women, Less Than Angels, The Sweet Dove Died, and A Very...
currently (re)reading: Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco
books bought Us Two Together by EphameronLast Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen, trans. Anna HalagerAxiomatic by Maria TumarkinThe Hard Tomorrow by...
currently reading: Taking Care by David Smail
books bought Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues-FowlerHoly the Firm by Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk by Annie DillardThe Adventure Zone: Murder on...
currently reading: The American Way of Death, Revisited by Jessica Mitford
books bought The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism by Kristin DombekMister Monkey by Francine ProseFragments of Sappho, trans. Anne...
currently reading: Mitz by Sigrid Nunez
books bought Empty Words by Mario Levrero, trans. Annie McDermottThe Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh LevinThe Summer of Dead Birds...
currently reading: All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura
books bought Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto HindmanThis Woman's Work by Julie Delporte, trans. Helge Dascher and Aleshia JensenWalking on the...
summer book preview
Welcome, bitches, to: What follows are some books I would like to read over the summer (“a book summer preview,” for the layman). Instead of googling each...
currently reading: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
books bought: Little Labors by Rivka GalchenAmerican Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica HesseNine Island by Jane Alison books...
currently reading: Until We Reckon by Danielle Sered
books bought: The White Book by Han KangUntil We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered books received: The Ungrateful...
currently reading: Strange Harvests by Edward Posnett
books bought: none! books received: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (e-galley, out 2/19)Strange Harvests: The Hidden...
currently reading: Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
books bought: Impossible Owls by Brian PhillipsSeasonal Associate by Heike Geissler, trans. Katy DerbyshireThe Journal of Jules Renard, ed./trans. by...
currently reading: Crudo by Olivia Laing
books finished: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica BruderThe Address Book by Sophie Calle books abandoned: Liquid Rules: The...
currently reading: Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
books bought Blind Spot by Teju ColeBad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Shit Together by Gaby DunnAwe by Dorothea Lasky books...