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July 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-08-012025-08-01 John Winkelman

I had some time off in July, so I put that time to good use getting caught up with my reading. Or rather, using reading as an escapist mechanism to avoid the fact that I still have at least a decade before I will be able to retire.

Acquisitions

Books acquired in the month of July 2025

  1. Banu Mushtaq (Deepa Bhasthi, translator), Heart Lamp: Selected Stories (And Other Stories) [2025.07.01]
  2. Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust [2025.07.09]
  3. Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris [2025.07.09]
  4. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States [2025.07.09]
  5. John Jennings, David Brame, Bill Campbell, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Damian Duffy, The Adventures of Lion Man (Rosarium Publishing) [2025.07.14]
  6. Quinn Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards (Zone Books) [2025.07.21]
  7. Rosalind Belben, Dreaming of Dead People (And Other Stories) [2025.07.28]

Reading List

Books

Books I read in the month of July 2025.

  1. Steve Kowit (editor), The Maverick Poets: An Anthology (re-read) [2025.07.04] – Every few years I just need to re-read this book. This is one of those years.
  2. Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfred Mac Adam (translator), Albina and the Dog Men [2025.07.04] – Entertaining but mid-range novel.
  3. Frantz Fanon (Richard Philcox, translator), The Wretched of the Earth [2025.07.07]
  4. Christine Schutt, Pure Hollywood (And Other Stories) [2025.07.08]
  5. Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust [2025.07.10]
  6. Carl de Souza (Jeffrey Zuckerman, translator), Kaya Days [2025.07.13]
  7. John Jennings, David Brame, Bill Campbell, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Damian Duffy, The Adventures of Lion Man [2025.07.20]

Short Prose

  1. Christine Schutt, “Pure Hollywood”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.06]
  2. Christine Schutt, “The Hedges”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.07]
  3. Christine Schutt, “Species of a Special Concern”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.07]
  4. Christine Schutt, “A Happy Rural Seat of Various View: Lucinda’s Garden”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
  5. Christine Schutt, “The Duchess of Albany”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
  6. Christine Schutt, “Family Man”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
  7. Christine Schutt, “Where You Live? When You Need Me?”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
  8. Christine Schutt, “Burst Pods, Gone-By, Tangled Aster”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
  9. Christine Schutt, “The Dot Sisters”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
  10. Christine Schutt, “Oh, the Obvious”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
  11. Christine Schutt, “The Lady from Connecticut”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
Posted in Book ListTagged Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfred Mac Adam, And Other Stories, Banu Mushtaq, Bill Campbell, Christine Schutt, Cormac McCarthy, Damian Duffy, David Brame, Deepa Bhasthi, Frantz Fanon, John Jennings, poetry, Quinn Slobodian, Richard Philcox, Rosalind Belben, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Steve Kowit, Travis Baldree, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

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