Things were kind of slow in August, reading-wise, due to a surge in burnout at the beginning of the month, and other assorted drains on my energy and attention span. I did make it through a few more issues of The Paris Review, and some interesting genre fiction as well.
Book and Journals
- Jennifer Pelland, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.02]
- The Paris Review #225 [2022.08.10]
- J.M. McDermott, Maze [2022.08.12]
- The Paris Review #226 [2022.08.18]
- The Paris Review #227 [2022.08.23]
- The Paris Review #228 [2022.08.28]
- Poetry Magazine #220.5 [2022.08.29]
- The Paris Review #229 [2022.08.31]
Short Prose
- Jennifer Pelland, “For the Plague Thereof Was Exceedingly Great”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.01]
- Jennifer Pelland, “Big Sister/Little Sister”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.01]
- Jennifer Pelland, “Immortal Sin”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.01]
- Jennifer Pelland, “Flood”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.01]
- Jennifer Pelland, “The Call”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.01]
- Jennifer Pelland, “Captive Girl”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.01]
- Jennifer Pelland, “Last Bus”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.01]
- Jennifer Pelland, “The Last Stand of the Elephant Man”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.01]
- Jennifer Pelland, “Songs of Lament”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.02]
- Jennifer Pelland, “Firebird”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.02]
- Jennifer Pelland, “Brushstrokes”, Unwelcome Bodies [2022.08.02]
- Wayétu Moore, “Gbessa”, The Paris Review #225 [2022.08.02]
- Ben Marcus, “Notes from the Fog”, The Paris Review #225 [2022.08.02]
- Katharine Kilalea, “OK, Mr. Field Part 3 (Winter)”, The Paris Review #225 [2022.08.08]
- Shruti Swamy, “A House Is a Body”, The Paris Review #225 [2022.08.09]
- Benjamin Nugent, “Safe Spaces”, The Paris Review #225 [2022.08.09]
- Ursula K. Le Guin, “Firelight”, The Paris Review #225 [2022.08.10]
- Rachel Khong, “The Freshening”, The Paris Review #226 [2022.08.11]
- Mitchell S. Jackson, “Exodus”, The Paris Review #226 [2022.08.13]
- Nell Freudenberger, “Rabbits”, The Paris Review #226 [2022.08.15]
- Diane Williams, “O Fortuna, Velut Luna”, The Paris Review #226 [2022.08.17]
- Venita Blackburn, “Fam”, The Paris Review #226 [2022.08.18]
- Pilar Fraile Amador (Heather D. Davis, translator), “Partners”, The Paris Review #226 [2022.08.18]
- Mary Miller, “Festival”, The Paris Review #226 [2022.08.18]
- Lincoln Michel, “A Feeling Artist”, The Paris Review #227 [2022.08.19]
- Leslie Jamison, “I Met Fear on the Hill”, The Paris Review #227 [2022.08.19]
- Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Anna Friedrich, translator), “Two Sisters”, The Paris Review #227 [2022.08.22]
- Hernan Diaz, “The Stay”, The Paris Review #227 [2022.08.22]
- Kelli Jo Ford, “Hybrid Vigor”, The Paris Review #227 [2022.08.23]
- Peter Orner, “Ineffectual Tribute to Len”, The Paris Review #228 [2022.08.24]
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, “The Murderer”, The Paris Review #228 [2022.08.24]
- Kate Zambreno, “Four Stories”, The Paris Review #228 [2022.08.27]
- J. Jezewska Stevens, “Honeymoon”, The Paris Review #228 [2022.08.27]
- Hebe Uhart, “Coordination”, The Paris Review #228 [2022.08.27]
- Souvankham Thammavongsa, “The Gas Station”, The Paris Review #228 [2022.08.28]
- Nick Fuller Googins, “The Doors”, The Paris Review #228 [2022.08.28]
- Jonathan Escoffery, “Under the Ackee Tree”, The Paris Review #229 [2022.08.30]
- Kimberly King Parsons, “Foxes”, The Paris Review #229 [2022.08.30]
- Laura van den Berg, “Karolina”, The Paris Review #229 [2022.08.30]
- Lydia Davis, “Revising One Sentence”, The Paris Review #229 [2022.08.30]