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April 2025 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

April was a good month for acquiring books from independent publishers.

April was an okay month for reading. My work-life balance was, yet again, significantly tipped toward the work side of things, which took from me much of my reading time, and left me unable to focus for what little time remained.

I suspect in the coming months I will be acquiring fewer books, due to supply-chain disruption and the inevitable recession and increased inflation.

Acquisitions

Books which arrived at my house in the month of April 2025.

  1. Our Dust Earth (Air and Nothingness Press)  [2025.04.07] – Acquired through a Kickstarter campaign run by Air and Nothingness Press
  2. Gerald Murnane, Barley Patch (And Other Stories) [2025.04.14] – The latest arrival from my subscription to And Other Stories.
  3. Kateřina Čupová (Julie Nováková, translator), R.U.R.: The Karel Čapek Classic (Rosarium Publishing) [2025.04.14] – Reward for a Kickstarter campaign run by the always-excellent Rosarium Publishing
  4. Lesley Connor and Jason Sizemore (editors), Robotic Ambitions (Apex Book Company) [2024.04.21]

Reading List

Books which I read in the month of April 2025.

Books

  1. China Miéville, The City and the City [2025.04.13]
  2. Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America [2025.04.17]
  3. Richard Brautigan, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster [2025.04.20]
  4. Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar [2025.04.23]

Short Prose

  1. Robin McLean, “But for Herr Hitler”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.04.24]
  2. Robin McLean, “Pterodactyl”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.04.25]

March 2025 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

At long last, I feel like I am back into the reading groove. Work is, well, just as busy, but less chaotic, and therefore I have the mental energy necessary to focus on quiet things like reading. That is not to say that I am reading quiet books.

I am very happy with my book interactions this month. The five books which arrived are a mind-blowing mix. And the reading was a genuine delight.

Acquisitions

Books which arrived at my house in the month of March, 2025.

  1. Melissa Wray, Small Gestures (Grand River Poetry Collective) [2025.03.14] – Received as a gift from the Grand River Poetry Collective
  2. LeRoi Jones, Home: Social Essays [2025.03.23] – Purchased from Black Dog Books and Records
  3. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast [2025.03.23] – Purchased from Black Dog Books and Records
  4. Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar [2025.03.24] – Purchased from City Lights Books
  5. Jean Baudrillard (Sheila Faria Glaser, translator), Simulacra and Simulation (University of Michigan Press) [2025.03.28] – Purchased from the publisher

Reading List

Books I finished reading in March 2025.

Books

  1. Barney Rosset, Dick Seaver, Fred Jordan, Mike Topp (editors), The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.12]
  2. Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings [2025.03.16]
  3. Melissa Wray, Small Gestures [2025.03.16]
  4. Maria Judite de Carvalho (Margaret Jull Costa, translator), Empty Wardrobes [2025.03.21]

Short Prose

  1. LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), “Cuba Libre”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.02]
  2. Kenneth Koch, “Bertha”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.02]
  3. Arrabel (James Hewitt, translator), “Picnic on the Battlefield”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.02]
  4. Robert Stromberg, “A Talk with Louis-Ferdinand Céline”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.03]
  5. Larry Rivers and Frank O’Hara, “How to Proceed in the Arts”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.03]
  6. William S. Burroughs, “from Naked Lunch“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.03]
  7. Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Carla Colter and Alison Scott, translators), “The Tunnel”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.03]
  8. Ahmed Yacoubi (Paul Bowles and Mohammed Larbi Djilali, translators), “The Night Before Thinking”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.03]
  9. Brendan Behan, “The Big House”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.05]
  10. Heinreich Böll (Richard and Clara Winston, translators), “In This Country of Ours”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.07]
  11. Günter Grass (Ralph Manheim, translator), “The Wide Skirt”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.07]
  12. Samuel Beckett (Richard Seaver, translator), “The Expelled”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.08]
  13. Robert Coover, “The Square-Shooter and the Saint”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.09]
  14. Robert Gover, “from One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.09]
  15. Driss ben Hamed Charhadi (Paul Bowles, translator), “from A Life Full of Holes“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.09]
  16. Jakov Lind (Ralph Manheim, translator), “Resurrection”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.10]
  17. Sławomir Mrożek (Konrad Syrop, translator), “Three Polish Tales”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.10]
  18. Pauline Réage (Sabine d’Estrée, translator), “from Story of O“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.10]
  19. Richard Brautigan, “from Trout Fishing in America“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.10]
  20. Hubert Selby, Jr., “from Last Exit to Brooklyn“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.11]
  21. Georges Bataille (Austryn Wainhouse, translator), “Madame Edwarda”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.12]
  22. Michael Rumaker, “Gringos”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.12]
  23. Witold Gombrowicz (Richard Seaver, translator), “On the Back Stair”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.12]
  24. Chester Himes, “from Pinktoes“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.12]
  25. Kenzaburō Ōe (John Nathan, translator), “Lavish Are the Dead”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.12]
  26. Henry Miller, “George Grosz’ Ecce Homo“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.12]
  27. Curzio Malaparte (Rex Benedict, translator), “Mamma Marcia”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.03.12]

February 2025 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

At long last, over two months since I cracked it open, I finally finished Doctor Zhivago. It was a long read – mostly beautiful, occasionally frustrating, and above all definitely worth the effort.

Now I am reading short fiction, to help reset my brain. Currently I am working my way through The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966, which, in addition to being full of superb short prose and poetry, is an interesting time-capsule of the state of literature almost seventy years ago.

Acquisitions

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste Speculative Science Fiction

  1. R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K., Rashmi R.D. (editors), The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (Blaft Publications)

Reading List

Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak

Books

  1. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago [2025.02.14]

Short Prose

  1. Jim C. Hines, “Kitemaster” (Patreon post) [2025.02.11]
  2. Samuel Beckett, “Dante and the Lobster”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.14]
  3. Jack Kerouac, “October in the Railroad Earth”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.14]
  4. Patsy Southgate, “A Very Important Lady”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.16] – [Note: I could find almost no information at all on Patsy Southgate online. Anything I found was as a side note to other writers and creative types. The two obituaries I could find, from 1998, were behind paywalls. Perhaps I will gather some sources and put together a Wikipedia page.]
  5. Kameron Hurley, “At the Crossroads of Many Futures” (Patreon post) [2025.02.16]
  6. Tobias S. Buckell, “The Last Cathedral of Earth, In Flight” (Patreon post) [2025.02.17]
  7. Alexander Trocchi, “From Cain’s Book“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.18]
  8. John Rechy, “From City of Night“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.18]
  9. William Eastlake, “Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.18]
  10. Carlos Fuentes (Lysander Kemp, translator), “The Life Line”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.21]
  11. Juan Rulfo (Lysander Kemp, translator), “From Pedro Páramo“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.22]
  12. Octavio Paz, “Todos Santos, Día de Muertos”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.24]
  13. Henry Miller, “Defense of the Freedom to Read”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.24]
  14. William Eastlake, “Three Heroes and a Clown”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.25]
  15. Terry Southern, “Red-Dirt Marihuana”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.25]
  16. William S. Burroughs, “Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.26]
  17. Eugène Ionesco, “Foursome”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.26]
  18. Martin Williams, “Charlie Parker: The Burden of Innovation”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.28]

January 2025 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

January was a good month for acquisition, but not a good month for reading.

Acquisitions

Books I acquired in January 2025.

  1. Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Connor (editors), The Map of Lost Places (Apex Book Company) [2025.01.14]
  2. David Estes and Dyrk Ashton, Kraken Rider Z: Thunder Kraken (Wraithmarked Creative, LLC) [2025.01.15]
  3. Stephen Leigh, A Fading Sun [2025.01.24]- A gift from the author, received at ConFusion 2025 (inscribed)
  4. Stephen Leigh, A Rising Moon [2025.01.24] – A gift from the author, along with the previous books, received at ConFusion 2025. (inscribed)
  5. J.D. Barker and Christine Daigle, Heavy are the Stones (Hampton Creek Press) [2025.01.25] – Received as part of an ARC giveaway, by the authors, to the attendees of ConFusion 2025.
  6. Brandon Butler (editor), The Science Fiction Tarot (tdotSpec, Inc) [2025.01.25] – An anthology created for a Kickstarter campaign. I picked this up at ConFusion 2025, where Storm Humbert, one of the anthology contributors, had copies for sale. (inscribed)

Reading List

Books

  1. Jordan S. Carroll, Speculative Whiteness [2025.01.27]

December 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

This was an excellent month for book acquisitions. For reading, not so much. Various events conspired to keep my attention span at a minimum, plus it being December I picked a classic Russian novel to read. This year it was Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, which is brilliant, but requires dedicated time to read, and that has simply not been possible. Maybe in January.

So I round out 2024 with 50 acquisitions and 65 volumes read, as well as close to 200 short stories. All in all, not a bad year.

Acquisitions

Books acquired in December 2024

  1. Michael Moorcock, The Whispering Swarm [2024.12.01] – Purchased at Bluestocking Bookshop in Holland, Michigan
  2. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Subterranean Press) [2024.12.05] – My Christmas gift to myself this year, from Subterranean Press.
  3. New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #3 – Kickstarter reward from their successful campaign.
  4. New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #4
  5. Phil Tucker, Dawn of the Void (self-published) [2024.12.28]- The deluxe collected omnibus of the Dawn of the Void trilogy, from Tucker’s Kickstarter campaign.
  6. Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, volume 1: 1931-1934 [2024.12.30] – Purchased on a whim from Argos Books
  7. Peter Pomerantsev, This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Public Affairs) [2024.12.30] – Purchased from Books and Mortar during a walk around town.
  8. Victor Serge, What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression (Seven Stories Press) [2024.12.30]- Purchased from Books and Mortar during a walk around town.
  9. Jeff VanderMeer, Absolution [2024.12.30] – Purchased from Books and Mortar during a walk around town.

Reading List

Books read in December 2024

Books

  1. Eva Baltasar (Julia Sanches, translator), Mammoth [2024.12.03]

Short Prose

  1. Jim C. Hines, “Goblin Lullaby” [2024.12.22]
  2. Tobias S. Buckell, “By Throat and Void” [2024.12.22]

November 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

November wasn’t such a great month for reading, mostly due to the existential dread of watching democracy die in the USA. Other than that, things are great!

Acquisitions

Books I acquired in November 2024.

 

  1. Jordan S. Carroll, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (University of Minnesota Press) [2024.11.01]
  2. Kateřina Čupová (Julie Nováková, translator, Damian Duffy, lettering), R.U.R: The Karel Čapek Classic (Rosarium Publishing) [2024.11.07]
  3. Yuri Herrera (Lisa Dillman, translator), Season of the Swamp (And Other Stories) [2024.11.12]
  4. Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 (Four Walls Eight Windows) [2024.11.14]
  5. Cheryl S. Ntumy, Songs for the Shadows (Atthis Arts) [2024.11.30]
  6. Ihor Mysiak (Yevheniia Dubrova and Hanna Leliv, translators), The Factory (Atthis Arts) [2024.11.30]

Reading List

Books

Books I read in November 2024.

  1. Elvira Navarro (Christina MacSweeney, translator), A Working Woman [2024.11.12]
  2. Mona Arshi, Somebody Loves You [2024.11.21]
  3. William Gibson, Spook Country [2024.11.27]

Short Prose

  1. Jim C. Hines, “A Game of Goblins” [2024.11.25]

October 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

October was quite busy so I didn’t read as much as I would have liked. But what I did read was most excellent!

Acquisitions

Books acquired in the month of October 2024.

  1. Morgan Talty, Fire Exit (And Other Stories) [2024.10.02]
  2. Michael J. DeLuca, The Jaguar Mask (Stelliform Press) [2024.10.06]
  3. Dave Klecha and Tobias J. Buckell, The Runes of Engagement (Tachyon Publications) [2024.10.06]

Reading List

Books

Books I read in October 2024.

  1. Jorge Luis Borges – Conversations [2024.10.10]
  2. Dave Klecha and Tobias J. Buckell, The Runes of Engagement [2024.10.14]
  3. Jack Ridl, All At Once [2024.10.17]
  4. Norah Lange, Notes from Childhood [2024.10.25]

September 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

In contrast with last month, September was an excellent month for short fiction. I have dozens of issues of various magazines and journals lying around my house unread, as well as probably close to 100 anthologies and short story collections awaiting my attention.  Any progress is better than no progress.

Acquisitions

Books acquired in September 2024

  1. Cassie Hart, Sloane Leong (editors), Death in the Mouth, vol. 2 [2024.09.12]
  2. Neil Kaufman, Darkness Is as Light To You [2024.09.21]
  3. Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body [2024.09.26]
  4. Jack Ridl, All at Once (CavanKerry Press) [2024.09.28]

Reading List

Books read in September 2024

Books

  1. Fleur Jaeggy, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  2. Dreamforge #2 [2024.09.14]
  3. Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.16]
  4. Dreamforge #4 [2024.09.22]
  5. Neil Kaufman, Darkness Is as Light To You [2024.09.24]

Short Prose

  1. Fleur Jaeggy, “I Am the Brother of XX”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.01]
  2. Fleur Jaeggy, “Negde”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.02]
  3. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Last of the Line”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.02]
  4. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Gentleman and the Lizard”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.03]
  5. Fleur Jaeggy, “Agnes”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.03]
  6. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Aseptic Room”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.03]
  7. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Heir”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.03]
  8. Fleur Jaeggy, “Portrait of an Unknown Woman”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.03]
  9. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Black Lace Veil”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.04]
  10. Fleur Jaeggy, “An Encounter in the Bronx”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.04]
  11. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Aviary”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.04]
  12. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Visitor”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.04]
  13. Fleur Jaeggy, “Adelaide”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  14. Fleur Jaeggy, “Tropics”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  15. Fleur Jaeggy, “Cat”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  16. Fleur Jaeggy, “Osmosis”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  17. Fleur Jaeggy, “Names”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  18. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Hanging Angel”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  19. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Perfect Choice”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  20. Fleur Jaeggy, “FK”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  21. Fleur Jaeggy, “The Saltwater House”, I Am the Brother of XX [2024.09.05]
  22. Alyssa Eckles, “Home”, Dreamforge #2 [2024.09.06]
  23. Andrew Jensen, “Sid”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.08]
  24. Marie Vibbert, “Loitering with Mathematical Intent”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  25. Tyler Tork, “Tea with Gibbons”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  26. L.P. Melling, “Luna’s First Eclipse”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  27. Blake Jessop, “I See Punk Elephants”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  28. G.M. Periera, “Sudan”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  29. Gregory L. Norris, “Hysterical”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  30. Michael McCormick, “Snow, 2562”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  31. Adam Fout, “We Are Cherished”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  32. Mark Gallacher, “Pioneer”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  33. Lif Strand, “Being Me”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.09]
  34. Davide Mana, “Sapiens”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.10]
  35. Deborah L. Davitt, “Arcology”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.10]
  36. Lucy Stone, “Haunting the Present”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.11]
  37. Emily Mah, “Wrath of a Lightweight”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.13]
  38. L. Deni Colter, “The Weight of Mountains”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.14]
  39. David Weber, “A Certain Talent”, Dreamforge#2 [2024.09.14]
  40. Jane Linskold, “A Question of Truth”, Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.14]
  41. Gustavo Bondoni, “A Sip of Pombé”, Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.15]
  42. Isaac E. Payne, “Esclados the Red”, Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.15]
  43. Hal Y. Zhang, “The Specular Boy”, Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.15]
  44. Scott Paul Hallam, “Fire in the Sky”, Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.15]
  45. Mary Soon Lee, “Wrong Turn”, Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.15]
  46. Jennifer R. Donohue, “Fundamentals of Search and Rescue”, Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.15]
  47. Josh Rountree, “Revolutions Per Minute”, Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.16]
  48. George Nikolopoulos, “Our New Home in the Stars”, Dreamforge #3 [2024.09.16]
  49. Jim C. Hines, “On the Efficacy of Supervillain Battles in Eliciting Therapeutic Breakthroughs” (Patreon) [2024.09.16]
  50. John Jos. Miller, “The Ghost of a Smile”, Dreamforge #4 [2024.09.17]
  51. Marie Croke, “Cessation of Civilization”, Dreamforge #4 [2024.09.17]
  52. Kurt Pankau, “Autoimmune”, Dreamforge #4 [2024.09.18]
  53. Gary Kloster, “Hot Times in Shady Pines”, Dreamforge #4 [2024.09.18]
  54. Anna Madden, “The Last Petal”, Dreamforge #4 [2024.09.21]
  55. Sally Wiener Grotta, “Beyond Our Hidden Stars”, Dreamforge #4 [2024.09.22]
  56. Robert E. Harpold, “Extremophile”, Dreamforge #4 [2024.09.22]
  57. Donald S. Crankshaw, “Dreamforger”, Dreamforge #4 [2024.09.22]

August 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

In August I returned to short prose for the first time since May. It is a strange consequence of having little free time or attention that I have space in my head for fractions of large stories, but not complete smaller stories. Will need to investigate and submit my notes to the Academy.

Acquisitions

Books acquired in August 2024

  1. Hanne Ørstavik (Martin Aitken, translator), Stay with Me (And Other Stories) [2024.08.14]
  2. Salvage #14 [2024.08.16]

Reading List

Books read in August 2024

Books

  1. Jim Harrison, Farmer [2024.08.09]
  2. Jen Haeger, Whispers of a Killer [2024.08.13]
  3. Thomas McGuane, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.27]
  4. Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders [2024.08.30]

Short Prose

  1. Thomas McGuane, “Vicious Circle”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.15]
  2. Thomas McGuane, “Cowboy”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.17]
  3. Thomas McGuane, “Ice”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.18]
  4. Thomas McGuane, “Old Friends”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.20]
  5. Thomas McGuane, “North Coast”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.21]
  6. Thomas McGuane, “The Zombie”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.23]
  7. Thomas McGuane, “Miracle Boy”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.25]
  8. Thomas McGuane, “Aliens”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.27]
  9. Thomas McGuane, “The Refugee”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.27]
  10. Thomas McGuane, “Gallantin Canyon”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.27]

July 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

July was not my best reading month. Too much work, plus prep for, and participating in, my first vacation of the year. But what my monthly reading lacked in quantity it more than made up for in quality. Plus, Viriconium was a long, extremely dense book. But well worth the effort.

Acquisitions

Paperback edition of Wholly Esenin, resting on a stone slab

  1. Sergei Esenin (Roger Pulvers, translator), Wholly Esenin: Poems by Sergei Esenin (Balestier Press) [2024.07.17] – Ordered from Books and Mortar, after reading Jim Harrison’s Letters to Yesenin, and watching this documentary about Esenin, created by Pushkin House, and finding the title in the comments.

Reading List

Books I read in July 2024

Books

  1. Jim Harrison, Letters to Yesenin (re-read) [2024.07.02]
  2. M. John Harrison, Viriconium [2024.07.23]
  3. Sergei Esenin (Roger Pulvers, translator), Wholly Esenin [2024.07.31]