July 2025 Books and Reading Notes

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

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

Reading List

Books

22. 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.
23. Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfred Mac Adam (translator), Albina and the Dog Men [2025.07.04] – Entertaining but mid-range novel.
24. Frantz Fanon (Richard Philcox, translator), The Wretched of the Earth [2025.07.07]
25. Christine Schutt, Pure Hollywood (And Other Stories) [2025.07.08]
26. Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust [2025.07.10]
27. Carl de Souza (Jeffrey Zuckerman, translator), Kaya Days [2025.07.13]
28. John Jennings, David Brame, Bill Campbell, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Damian Duffy, The Adventures of Lion Man [2025.07.20]

Short Prose

63. Christine Schutt, “Pure Hollywood”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.06]
64. Christine Schutt, “The Hedges”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.07]
65. Christine Schutt, “Species of a Special Concern”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.07]
66. Christine Schutt, “A Happy Rural Seat of Various View: Lucinda’s Garden”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
67. Christine Schutt, “The Duchess of Albany”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
68. Christine Schutt, “Family Man”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
69. Christine Schutt, “Where You Live? When You Need Me?”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
70. Christine Schutt, “Burst Pods, Gone-By, Tangled Aster”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
71. Christine Schutt, “The Dot Sisters”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
72. Christine Schutt, “Oh, the Obvious”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]
73. Christine Schutt, “The Lady from Connecticut”, Pure Hollywood [2025.07.08]