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Links and Notes for the Week of June 10, 2018

John Winkelman

* The Calvert Journal is publishing Beyond the Game, a series of video vignettes exploring each of the cities in Russia which will be hosting the football during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
* TOR.com has posted nice big long lists of the major genre releases for June 2018:
** All the new Fantasy Books Coming Out in June 2018.
** All the new Science Fiction Books Coming Out in June 2018.
** All the new Genre-Bending Books Coming Out in June 2018.
* Metafilter has posted the latest catch-all thread for links and commentary concerning the presidency and administration of Donald Trump, whose daddy issues exceed even those of George W. Bush, which is an astounding accomplishment. Baby Hands and Daddy Issues would be the title of the most accurate possible biography of our current and perpetually emasculated president.

Books in Translation and the Publishers Thereof, Revisited

John Winkelman

Several years ago I began collecting books from publishers who specialize in translations from other languages into English. This was prompted by two circumstances. First, a co-worker from bygone years, Chad Post, began working at Open Letter Books in Rochester, NY. Second, on a visit to the Grand Rapids Public Library I discovered Esperanza Street by Niyati Keni, published by And Other Stories.

My eyes having been opened, and knowing a thing or two about the publishing world, I began researching small presses and books in translation. This led to the discovery that some of the most successful publishers, with the most exciting titles and authors, offered subscriptions to their catalogs. What a wonderful way to discover new authors, support small businesses, and add quality and variety to a personal library!

As of the publishing date of this post, I have subscriptions to Open Letter Books, Restless Books, Deep Vellum, & Other Stories, and Two Lines Press.

I found a couple of pages which have comprehensive lists of publishers of works in translation – The American Literary Translators Association and PEN America. What follows is a subset (probably incomplete) of publishers from these two lists which offer subscriptions to their catalogs. Links go to subscription information.

Links and Notes for the Week of June 3, 2018

John Winkelman

* A worthy list from BookRiot: 50 Must-Read Books with Gorgeous Writing. From this list I have read The Ocean at the End of the Lane, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Kite Runner, and White Oleander. Looks like my Mount Tsundoku will be growing soon.
* The Midwest Socialist has published an excellent 5-part (so far) primer on the basics of radical thought and history.
** Part 1 – Dialectical Materialism
** Part 2 – Alienation
** Part 3 – Class
** Part 4 – Value
** Part 5 – Praxis
* Goddammit so much. Anthony Bourdain has left the kitchen. Here is a good round-up of the best writing about Bourdain to be found on the web.

ConFusion 2018: Poetry in Novels

John Winkelman

(These are my lightly edited notes for a panel I participated in at the ConFusion Fantasy and Science Fiction Convention in January of 2018)

THE PANEL: Poetry in Novels (21 January 2018, 10:00)

PANELISTS: Amal El-Mohtar, Clif Flynt, Jeff Pryor, John Winkelman, Mari Ness

DESCRIPTION: “Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass include lengthy poems, placing them in a long tradition of long-form fiction that incorporates poetry into the work. How does writing poems for prose fiction differ from writing poems that stand alone? What distinct techniques does it require? Where do poems within stories exist in the landscape of genre poetry today?”

PRE-PANEL NOTES

PANEL NOTES

  • Poetry can be time-shifted in relation to the story in which it appears
    • In situ, as a bard or skald composes a poem based on events as they are happening
    • Used to imply history/world-building for the setting. An epic poem is written between the time of the events which it recounts and the time in which it is read.
    • The poem itself can be placed in a specific place in history based on written style or language or word usage.
  • Poetry can be used for world-building, either experienced by the characters or as related by the narrator.

MY THOUGHTS

Boy, did I over-think this one–in part because I love poetry, and in part because Amal El-Mohtar was also on the panel and I wanted to bring my “A” game.

Links and Notes for the Week of February 11, 2018

John Winkelman

* My partner and I have been spending our Sunday afternoons studying, writing and watching The Mind of a Chef, which is all kinds of distracting and wonderful and a purveyor of the worst kind of wanderlust. Anthony Bourdain is the executive producer and narrator of each episode. Like all of his shows, he makes even the most exotic and high-concept meals accessible (in concept, if not financially) to even the most casual non-foodie viewers.

* I spend a lot of time reading news of the literary world. To keep things organized, I use Feedly, which I picked up after Google shut down its Reader service. This is a partial list of the lit news resources I read: Book Riot, NPR Books, Brain Pickings, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Locus Online, Publisher’s Lunch, The Millions, New York Review of Books, Tor.com, Words Without Borders, Aerogramme Writers’ Studio.

* Some words: suppose, oppose, impose, depose, compose, transpose

* Metafilter has posted a good catch-all thread discussing a recently published study from the Southern Poverty Law Center: The Alt-Right is Killing People. The post, and many of the comments, provide additional links to stories which add context and nuance to the points discussed. As always with Metafilter, the comments are worth reading.

* I’ve been following The Edge for oh, about fifteen years now. It looks like they may be closing up shop, as they just asked their last question: “What is the last question?” The link goes to the (hundreds of) answers.

* The squealing cowards who oppose gun control have the blood of 32 more people on their hands. The NRA is a terrorist organization and they pull the strings of their lickspittles in the GOP. The emasculated orange coward-in-chief has, of course, done what all Republicans do and is blaming the victims. For a continually up-to-date score of the Republican-sanctioned violence in this country, see the Gun Violence Archive.

* As of the date of publishing this post, I have 631 books catalogued in LibraryThing.

ConFusion 2018: Immigration and Refuge in Science Fiction

John Winkelman

(These are my lightly edited notes for a panel I attended at the ConFusion Fantasy and Science Fiction Convention in January of 2018)

PANEL: Immigration and Refuge in Science Fiction (20 January 2018, 10:00)

DESCRIPTION: “Travel stories are classics in any genre, but in science fiction stories of travelling to a new home are often about colonization, or about intrepid explorers amongst the (primitive) aliens. Let’s talk about the science fiction stories that better reflect the experiences of immigrants and refugees in the real world.”

PANELISTS: Alexandra Manglis, Amal El-Mohtar, David Anthony Durham, John Chu

NOTES:

My thoughts:

There were many important ideas passed around in this panel, particularly in light of the racist, xenophobic, fascist policies of the current (c. 2018) U.S. president and his cabinet. One book which comes to mind which showed the POV of a refugee is What is the What, by Dave Eggers. Neither genre nor quite fiction, but a beautiful book all the same. As for fiction stories, well, I can’t think of any I have read. Not that they are not out there.

Links and Notes for the Week of January 28, 2018

John Winkelman

* Some words: Dialogue. Monologue. Analog. Dialect. Lecture. Lector.

* After some years of using GoodReads, I am trying out LibraryThing as a way to catalog all of my books. I can’t say I prefer one to the other, but at first use the LibraryThing UI is easier for viewing large volumes of data. Thus I don’t need to build a custom app to do this for me. Plus plus, the LibraryThing Android App can scan barcodes, which VASTLY simplifies the cataloging process.

* [UPDATE] After a week of using LibraryThing, I can say this: LT is very good as a cataloging system. It lacks some of the “friendliness” of GoodReads, but that is not a criticism. LT also makes sorting, filtering, and categorizing extremely easy. I think I will end up using both in parallel – GoodReads for the more public-facing view of all things literary in my life, and LibraryThing for the catalog of my personal library. LT will also be useful for outputting data for any custom apps I might build down the road.

* I’ve been studying up on Baba Yaga and Russian history for a writing project. One of the odd bits of trivia I have uncovered is that there is a community of Old Believers in a tiny town in northern Minnesota. Old Believers — staroveri (старове́ры), formerly called raskolniki (раскольники), which has interesting connotations vis a vis Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment — have communities all over the world, with the primary U.S. populations being in Alaska, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. Funny, the way the pieces of a story come together.

Links and Notes for the Week of January 14, 2018

John Winkelman

* Back in September of 2016 I took the Amtrak from Grand Rapids to Vancouver via the Empire Builder route. It was a wonderful, contemplative, transcendent experience (blog posts pending). Based on that, and based on this article in the Calvert Journal, I now want to experience the Trans-Siberian Railway. It will also give me an excuse to dust off my Russian skills.

* And speaking of that trip, while in transit, while not watching America roll by, I read Trysting by Emmanuelle Pagano. It is an absolutely beautiful book, recalling all of love and beauty and intimacy and trust and heartache and the million tiny moments that bind people together and pull them apart. I just came across a wonderful review by Lauren Goldberg in Music & Literature which does justice to the most compelling book I have read in years. On a related note, I think I will now buy a subscription to Music & Literature.

* And speaking of Russian stuff, the Speak Russian Like Russians blog is both useful and fun.

* In the world of fandom and literature, author Jim C. Hines (may his beard grow ever longer) has put together an excellent post detailing the long history of Jon del Arroz’s trolling and harassing behavior toward authors, fans and organizations in the larger community. The comments on the article are mostly erudite and informative, though a JdA supporter/GamerGater pulls an impressive amount of sea-lioning to no significant effect.

* The 2018 State of the World conversation over at The Well has wrapped up. It, as well as the many previous conversations in the series, are well worth perusing over the upcoming weeks and months. A hearty thank you to Bruce Sterling, Jon Lebkowsky and all the other participants for opening this to the general public.

* Dean Allen, creator of the content management/blogging system Textpattern, has passed away. Allen was one of the biggest influences in my early career as a web developer. I took his thoughts on design and typography to heart, though I was never a designer. His photo blog featuring his Weimaraner Oliver made me want to move to rural France. Allen, along with Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman, were huge influences as I began my career in web development.

2018 Reading List

John Winkelman

Welcome to the fourth year of the Reading List. These are all of the books I have purchased and/or read in calendar year 2018. My full list of books can be found on LibraryThing (books I own) and GoodReads (books I have read).

January (38)

  1. McKean, Dave and Schafer, William – The Weight of Words (Subterranean Press)
  2. Nguyen, Viet Than – The Refugees
  3. Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale
  4. Walton, David – The Genius Plague
  5. Sterling, Phillip – And Then Snow (Main Street Rag)
  6. Mitchell, David – Slade House
  7. Peninsula Poets #74.1, Spring 2017 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
  8. Peninsula Poets #74.2, Fall 2017 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
  9. D’Rivera, Paquito – Letters to Yeyito (Restless Books)
  10. Simo, Ana – Heartland (Restless Books)
  11. Khan, Ausma Zehanat – The Bloodprint
  12. Liu, Ken – The Man who Ended History, signed, #462 of 500 (WSFA Press)
  13. Chakraborty, S.A. – The City of Brass
  14. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus
  15. Hines, Jim C. – Terminal Alliance
  16. Law, Lucas K. and Mak, Derwin (eds.) – Where the Stars Shine (Laksa Media Groups, Inc)
  17. Tomlinson, Patrick S. – The Ark (Angry Robot Books)
  18. Tomlinson, Patrick S. – Trident’s Forge (Angry Robot Books)
  19. Tomlinson, Patrick S. – Children of the Divide (Angry Robot Books)
  20. Sizemore, Jason – For Exposure (Apex Publications)
  21. Sizemore, Jason – Irredeemable (Seventh Star Press)
  22. Apex Magazine #104
  23. Gates, Jaym and Valentinelli, Monica (eds.) – Upside Down (Apex Publications)
  24. Townsend, Tracy – The Nine (Prometheus Books)
  25. Ness, Mari – Through Immortal Shadows Singing (Papaveria Press)
  26. Wolfe, Navah and Parisien, Dominik (eds.) – Robots vs. Fairies (Saga Press)
  27. Hirshfield, Jane – Nine Gates
  28. Brown, Adrienne Marie and Imarisha, Walidah (eds.) – Octavia’s Brood (AK Press)
  29. Karastoyanov, Hristo – The Same Night Awaits Us All (Open Letter Books)
  30. Music & Literature #7
  31. Music & Literature #8
  32. Freedman, Carl (ed.) – Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (University Press of Mississippi)
  33. Le Guin, Ursula K. – The Found and the Lost (Saga Press)
  34. Le Guin, Ursula K. – The Unreal and the Real (Saga Press)
  35. Foglio, Kaja and Foglio, Phil – Girl Genius 16: The Incorruptible Library (Airship Entertainment)
  36. Claybourne, Zig Zag – The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan (Narmer’s Palette)
  37. Eastern Iowa Review #3
  38. Johns, Andreas – Baba Yaga (Peter Lang Publishing)

February (13)

  1. Granta #142
  2. Stein, Melissa – Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press)
  3. George, Jenny – The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press)
  4. Nezhukumatathil, Aimee – Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press)
  5. Campbell, Bill and Hall, Edward Austin (eds) – Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond (Rosarium Publishing)
  6. Goh, Jaymee and Chng, Joyce (eds) – The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia (Rosarium Publishing)
  7. Karetnyk, Bryan (ed.) – Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky
  8. Triantafyllou, Petros (ed.) – Art of War (Booknest.eu)
  9. Jemisin, N.K. – The Obelisk Gate
  10. VanderMeer, Jeff – Authority
  11. Jacobin Magazine, Issue 28 (Winter 2018)
  12. Nielsen, Madame – The Endless Summer (Open Letter Books)
  13. Kopf, Alicia – Brother in Ice (And Other Stories)

March (25)

  1. Okorafor, Nnedi – Binti
  2. Sullivan, Susan Abel – Cursed: Wickedly Fun Stories (World Weaver Press)
  3. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Fae (World Weaver Press)
  4. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Sirens (World Weaver Press)
  5. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Equus (World Weaver Press)
  6. Parrish, Rhonda (ed.) – Corvidae (World Weaver Press)
  7. Bujold, Lois McMaster – Penric’s Mission, signed, #433 of 450 (Subterranean Press)
  8. Mandel, Emily St. John – Station Eleven, signed, #588 or 750 (Subterranean Press)
  9. Reaves, Mallory and Reaves, Michael – Eternity’s Wheel, signed, #485 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
  10. Armstrong, Kelley – Lost Souls (Subterranean Press)
  11. Blaylock, James P. – River’s Edge, signed, #970 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  12. Silverberg, Robert – The Millennium Express (Subterranean Press)
  13. Spencer, William Browning – The Unorthodox Dr. Draper, signed, #382 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
  14. Straub, Peter – Perdido (Subterranean Press)
  15. Silverberg, Robert – The Emperor and the Maula (Subterranean Press)
  16. Shiner, Lewis – Heroes and Villains, signed, #436 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
  17. Lumley, Brian – The Compleat Crow (Subterranean Press)
  18. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #0, December 2017
  19. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #1, January 2018
  20. Schutt, Christine – Pure Hollywood (And Other Stories)
  21. James, D.R. – If God Were Gentle (Dos Madres Press)
  22. Bray, Mark – Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House Publishing)
  23. Kemper, Donna – Forgive and Forgotten (Credo House Publishers)
  24. Apex Magazine #106 (March 2018)
  25. Joshi, S.T. (ed.) – Black Wings 6 (PS Publishing)

April (21)

  1. Winn, Howard – Acropolis (Propertius Press)
  2. Jemisin, N.K. – The Stone Sky
  3. Coates, Ta-Nehisi – A Nation Under Our Feet 1
  4. Brakefield, Russell – Field Recordings (Wayne State University Press)
  5. VanderMeer, Jeff – Acceptance
  6. Cleave, Sarah (ed.) – Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  7. Ganieva, Alisa – Bride & Groom (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  8. Apex Magazine #107 (April 2018)
  9. Harris, Joseph – Logically Thinking (chapbook)
  10. Harris, Joseph – Speak Up! (chapbook)
  11. McSweeney’s #52
  12. Ugresic, Dubravka – Fox (Open Letter Books)
  13. Bat-Ami, Miriam – Measuring the Marigolds (Caffeinated Press)
  14. Ono, Masatsugu – Lion Cross Point (Two Lines Press)
  15. Two Lines #28
  16. Scalzi, John – Head On
  17. Willis, Connie – I Met a Traveler in an Antique Land (Subterranean Press)
  18. Lovecraft, H.P. – The Illustrated Call of Cthulhu (Flesk Publications)
  19. Mignola, Mike – Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, Studio Edition (Flesk Publications)
  20. Peninsula Poets #75.1 (Spring 2018)
  21. Vodolazkin, Eugene – Laurus (Oneworld Publications)

May (8)

  1. Ward, Jesmyn (ed.) – The Fire This Time
  2. Vollmann, William T. – No Immediate Danger
  3. Bacigalupi, Paolo – The Alchemist (Subterranean Press)
  4. Kuznia, Yanni (ed.) – A Fantasy Medley 3 (Subterranean Press)
  5. Hilbig, Wolfgang – The Tidings of the Trees (Two Lines Press)
  6. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #2, April 2018
  7. Mandanipour, Shahriar – Moon Brow (Restless Books)
  8. Fresán, Rodrigo – The Bottom of the Sky (Open Letter Books)

June (28)

  1. Voices 2018
  2. Shishkin, Mikhail – Calligraphy Lessons (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  3. VanderMeer, Ann and VanderMeer, Jeff (eds) – Sisters of the Revolution (PM Press)
  4. Vollmann, William T. – No Good Alternative
  5. Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita
  6. Russian Literature Triquarterly #9 (Spring 1974)
  7. Carruth, Hayden – Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey (Copper Canyon Press)
  8. Le Guin, Ursula – Sixty Odd (Shambhala Publications)
  9. Gaiman, Neil – Fragile Things
  10. Gaiman, Neil – Sandman: Overture (Vertigo Comics)
  11. de Jesus, Noelle Q. and Katigbak-Lacuesta, Mookie (eds.) – Fast Food Fiction Delivery (Anvil Publishing, Inc)
  12. Realuyo, Bino – The Gods We Worship Live Next Door (University of Utah Press)
  13. Malonzo, Mervin – Tabi Po #1 (Visprint, Inc)
  14. Malonzo, Mervin – After Lambana (Vistaprint, Inc)
  15. Chacon, Sasha Pimentel – Insides She Swallowed (West End Press)
  16. Donoso, Isaac (ed.) Boxer Codex – Vibal Foundation
  17. Hagedorn, Jessica – The Gangster of Love
  18. Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne – Loaded (City Lights Books)
  19. Giroux, Henry A. – American Nightmare (City Lights Books)
  20. Reyes, Barbara Jane – Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books)
  21. Meltzer, David (eds) – San Francisco Beats: Talking with the Poets (City Lights Books)
  22. Lewis, Penelope and Page, Ra (eds.) – Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep (Comma Press)
  23. Depestre, Rene – Hadriana in All My Dreams (Akashic Books)
  24. Bakewell, Sarah – At the Existentialist Cafe (Other Press)
  25. Abdurraqib, Hanif – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio)
  26. Sax, Sam – Madness
  27. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence – A Coney Island of the Mind, 50th Anniversary Edition (New Directions Publishing)
  28. Coval, Kevin, Lansana, Quraysh Ali, and Marshall, Nate (eds.) – The Breakbeat Poets (Haymarket Books)

July (14)

  1. Lange, Norah – People in the Room (And Other Stories)
  2. Apex Magazine #109, June 2018
  3. Hong, Xiao – Ma Bo’Le’s Second Life (Open Letter Books)
  4. PEN America #21 – Mythologies
  5. Stephenson, Neal and Galland, Nicole – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
  6. Gleason, Rachel – New Kind of Rebellion (chapbook)
  7. Yang, Jy – The Black Tides of Heaven
  8. Yang, Jy – The Read Threads of Fortune
  9. Singh, Vandana – Ambiguity Machines (Small Beer Press)
  10. Erdrich, Heid E (ed.) – New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press)
  11. Womack, Ytasha L. – Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture (Lawrence Hill Books)
  12. Goncharov, Ivan – Oblomov
  13. Arendt, Hannah – The Origins of Totalitarianism
  14. Poirer, Agnès – Left Bank

August (14)

  1. Yesenin, Sergei – Selected Poems
  2. Mandelstam, Osip – Voronezh Notebooks (New York Review Books)
  3. Turgenev, Ivan – First Love and Other Stories (Oxford University Press)
  4. Mayakovsky, Vladimir – Selected Poems (Northwestern University Press)
  5. Watts, Peter – The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Tachyon Publishing)
  6. Haight, Ian – Celadon (Unicorn Press)
  7. Roanhorse, Rebecca – Trail of Lightning
  8. Granta #144
  9. Apex Magazine #110
  10. Salvage Magazine #5
  11. Brace, Kristin – Fence, Patio, Blessed Virgin (Finishing Line Press)
  12. Ólafsson, Bragi – Narrator (Open Letter Books)
  13. Twitty, Michael W. – The Cooking Gene
  14. Bourdain, Anthony – Kitchen Confidential

September (19)

  1. Foglio, Kaja and Foglio, Phil – Girl Genius 17: Kings and Wizards (Airship Entertainment)
  2. The Paris Review #226
  3. Amazing Stories 76.1 (Fall 2018/WorldCon Issue)
  4. Rucker, Rudy – Return to the Hollow Earth (Transreal Books)
  5. Sagwa, Kim – Mina (Two Lines Press)
  6. Two Lines #29
  7. Ulibarri, Sarena (ed.) – Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (World Weaver Press)
  8. Trabucco Zerán, Alia – The Remainder (And Other Stories)
  9. Sigurðsson, Ófeigur – Oraefi: The Wasteland (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  10. Llansol, Maria Gabriela – The Geography of Rebels Trilogy (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  11. Berti, Eduardo – The Imagined Land (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  12. Matthieussent, Brice – Revenge of the Translator (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  13. Jones, Scott R. (ed.) – Cthulhusattva (Martian Migraine Press)
  14. Brenda, Libia (ed.) – A Larger Reality (Cumulo de Tesla)
  15. Ugrešić, Dubravka – American Fictionary (Open Letter Books)
  16. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: Wrath of Gods
  17. Albahari, David – Checkpoint (Restless Books)
  18. Hernandez, Catherine – Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press)
  19. Wagner, Phoebe and Wieland, Brontë Christopher (eds.) – Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation (Upper Rubber Boot Books)

October (28)

  1. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #3
  2. Vourvoulias, Sabrina – Ink (Rosarium Publishing)
  3. Arnold, Amy – Slip of a Fish (And Other Stories)
  4. Indiana, Rita – Tentacle (And Other Stories)
  5. Apex Magazine #112, September 2018
  6. Morgan, Saretta – Feeling Upon Arrival (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  7. Fitterman, Robert – This Window Make Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  8. Cáceres, Omar – Defense of the Idol (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  9. White, Simone – Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  10. Marinovich, Filip – Wolfman Librarian (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  11. Herzer, Christine – Orange (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  12. Storm Cellar 7.1
  13. Nordenhof, Asta Olivia – the easiness and the loneliness (Open Letter Books)
  14. Larsen, Nella – Passing (Restless Books)
  15. Le Guin, Ursula – Wild Angels (Copper Canyon Press)
  16. Le Guin, Ursula – So Far, So Good (Copper Canyon Press)
  17. Poetry 213.1, October 2018
  18. Locus Magazine, October 2018
  19. Stoneboat Literary Journal 8.2
  20. Almeida, Alexis – I Have Never Been Able to Sing (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  21. Rogal, Lisa – Feed Me Weird Things (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  22. Ostrups, Artis – Gestures (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  23. Patterson, Zahara – Chronology (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  24. Gdenov, Vasilik – Alphabet for the Entrants (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
  25. Vitale, Anna – Our Rimbaud Mask (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  26. Hamilton, Diana – God Was Right (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  27. Sugar House Review 10.1
  28. Apex Magazine #113

November (31)

  1. Reikki, Ron (ed.) – The Way North (Wayne State University Press)
  2. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 1 (Apex Publications)
  3. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 2 (Apex Publications)
  4. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3 (Apex Publications)
  5. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4 (Apex Publications)
  6. Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5 (Apex Publications)
  7. Leib, Bart R. and Holt, Kay T. (eds.) – Resist Fascism (Crossed Genres Publications)
  8. Kasper, M (ed., trans.) – Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  9. Anderson, Darran – Imaginary Cities (University of Chicago Press)
  10. Piglia, Ricardo – The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years (Restless Books)
  11. Butcher, Jim – Turn Coat, signed, #360 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
  12. Shiner, Lewis – Heroes and Villains, signed, #247 of 750 (Subterranean Press)
  13. Schow, David J – DJStories, signed, #568 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  14. Bujold, Lois McMaster – Mira’s Last Dance, signed, #242 of 450 (Subterranean Press)
  15. Blaylock, James P. – River’s Edge, signed, #379 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  16. Armstrong, Kelly – Amityville Horrible, signed, #961 of 1500 (Subterranean Press)
  17. Anders, Charlie Jane – Rock Manning Goes for Broke, signed, #393 of 1500 (Subterranean Press)
  18. Lansdale, Joe R. and Mertz, Stephen – M.I.A. Hunter, signed, #177 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
  19. Resnick, Mike – Voyages, signed, #703 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  20. Leckie, Ann – Provenance, signed, #259 of 500 (Subterranean Press)
  21. McSweeney’s #54: The End of Trust
  22. Monk, Ian and Becker, Daniel Levin (eds.) – All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018 (McSweeney’s)
  23. Peninsula Poets, Fall 2018 (Poetry Society of Michigan)
  24. Palmer, Ada – Too Like the Lightning
  25. Dickinson, Seth – The Monster Baru Cormorant
  26. Yang, JY – The Descent of Monsters
  27. Poetry CCCXIII.3, December 2018
  28. Sanchez, Pablo Martin – The Anarchist Who Shared My Name (Deep Vellum)
  29. Granta #145
  30. Jemisin, N.K. – How Long ’til Black Future Month?
  31. Rodoreda, Mercè – Camellia Street (Open Letter Books)

December (9)

  1. Salvage #2
  2. Salvage #3
  3. Hilbig, Wolfgang – The Females (Two Lines Press)
  4. Apex Magazine #114 (November 2018)
  5. Steffen, David (ed.) – The Long List Anthology, vol. 4 (Diabolical Plots L.L.C.)
  6. The Paris Review #227
  7. Salvage #6
  8. Poetry #213.4, January 2019
  9. Girondo, Oliverio – Decals (Open Letter Books)

2017 Reading List

John Winkelman

Same as the 2016 reading list. This are all of the books and journals acquired/read by Yours Truly in the 2017 calendar year.

January (11)

  1. Suah, Bae – Recitation (Deep Vellum)
  2. Klougart, Josefine – Of Darkness (Deep Vellum)
  3. Manson, Mark – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
  4. Blasim, Hassan (ed). – Iraq + 100 (Comma Press UK)
  5. The Long List Anthology vol. 2 (Diabolical Plots LLC)
  6. More, Thomas – Utopia
  7. Harrison, Jim – Republican Wives (novella)
  8. Žižek, Slavoj – Event
  9. Volodine, Antoine – Radiant Terminus (Open Letter Books)
  10. Chopra, Serena – IC (Horse Less Press)
  11. Anderson, Stephanie – Lands of Yield (Horse Less Press)

February (16)

  1. Athitakis, Mark – The New Midwest (Belt Publishing)
  2. Atkinson, Scott (ed) – Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  3. Wolin, Sheldon S. – Democracy Incorporated
  4. Thompson, Hunter S. – Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail ’72
  5. Thompson, Hunter S. – The Great Shark Hunt
  6. Thompson, Hunter S. – Generation of Swine
  7. Thompson, Hunter S. – Songs of the Doomed
  8. Thompson, Hunter S. – Better Than Sex
  9. Granta #138: Journeys
  10. Du Bois, W.E.B. – The Souls of Black Folk (Restless Books)
  11. Weir, Andy – The Martian
  12. Aira, César – The Proof (And Other Stories)
  13. Dick, Philip K. – The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
  14. Noll, João Gilberto – Atlantic Hotel (Two Lines Press)
  15. Two Lines, Issue 26
  16. Harrison, Jim – A Really Big Lunch

March (13)

  1. Eco, Umberto – The Name of the Rose
  2. Xue, Can – Frontier (Open Letter Books)
  3. England, Andrea – Other Geographies (Creative Justice Press)
  4. Robinson, Kim Stanley – New York 2140
  5. Hines, Jim C. – Revisionary
  6. Sterling, Bruce – Pirate Utopia (Tachyon Publications)
  7. Castillo, Ana – Peel My Love Like an Onion
  8. Castillo, Ana – Black Dove (Feminist Press)
  9. Blackburn, Paul – The Collected Poems (Persea Books)
  10. Castillo, Ana – Watercolor Women Opaque Men (Northwestern University Press)
  11. Li He – Goddesses, Ghosts and Demons: The Collected Poems of Li He
  12. Kicknosway, Faye – Who Shall Know Them?
  13. Vallejo, César – Poemas Humanos

April (13)

  1. Condrescu, Andrei – Alien Candor (Black Sparrow Press)
  2. Cope, David (ed) – Song of the Owashtanong (Ridgeway Press)
  3. May, Jamaal – Hum (Alice James Books)
  4. Wright, C.D. – The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All (Copper Canyon Press)
  5. Poetry Magazine, April 2017
  6. Pitol, Sergio – The Magician of Vienna (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  7. Gnarr, Jón – The Outlaw (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  8. Adams, John Joseph (ed.) – Cosmic Powers
  9. Conversations with Paul Bowles (University Press of Mississippi)
  10. Conversations with Chinua Achebe (University Press of Mississippi)
  11. Patterson, Jorge Zepeda – Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World (Restless Books)
  12. Fresán, Rodrigo – The Invented Part (Open Letter Books)
  13. Garréta, Anne – Not One Day (Deep Vellum Publishing)

May (11)

  1. VanderMeer, Jeff – Borne
  2. Springer, Filip – History of a Disappearance (Restless Books)
  3. Jaeggy, Fleur – I Am the Brother of XX (And Other Stories)
  4. Segaloff, Nat – A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison (NESFA Press) #165 of 500
  5. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
  6. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Demons
  7. Jussawalla, Feroza and Dasenbrock, Reed Way (eds) – Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World (University Press of Mississippi)
  8. Granta #139
  9. Miéville, China – October
  10. James, D.R. – Split Level (Finishing Line Press)
  11. McGookey, Kathleen – Heart in a Jar (White Pine Press)

June (11)

  1. Carroll, Jim – Living at the Movies
  2. Rulfo, Juan – The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  3. Nowicki, Wojciech – Salki (Open Letter Books)
  4. Glossolalia, Issue 3
  5. Jodorowsky, Alejandro – Where the Bird Sings Best (Restless Books)
  6. Martin, George R.R. – The World of Ice and Fire
  7. Hopler, Jay – The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)
  8. Walsh, Joanna – Worlds from the Word’s End (And Other Stories)
  9. Laurel, Juan Tomás Ávila – The Gurugu Pledge (And Other Stories)
  10. NDiaye, Marie – My Heart Hemmed In (Two Lines Press)
  11. The 3288 Review, Issue 2.4 (Caffeinated Press)

July (17)

  1. Schafer, William (ed.) – Best of Subterranean (Subterranean Press)
  2. Alexie, Sherman – The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
  3. Alexie, Sherman – Reservation Blues
  4. Alexie, Sherman – You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
  5. Oliver, Mary – Why I Wake Early
  6. Open Palm Print #7
  7. Eggers, Dave – Zeitoun
  8. Hammond, Rose L. – Just a Poor Country Girl (Run With It)
  9. LeBel, Steve – The Universe Builders: Bernie and the Lost Girl (Argon Press)
  10. LeBel, Steve – The Universe Builders: Bernie and the Putty (Argon Press)
  11. Davis, Jean – The Last God
  12. McClure, Patricia M. – Losing a Hero to Alzheimer’s
  13. Payne, J. Scott – The Green Hell (Argon Press)
  14. Compton, Deanna J. – Freecurrent: The Legacy (In God’s Hands Publishing)
  15. The Best of McSweeney’s (McSweeney’s)
  16. Torres, Fernanda – The End (Restless Books)
  17. Bergsson, Guðbergur – Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller (Open Letter Books)

August (11)

  1. Dickie, Tenzin – Old Demons, New Deities (O/R Books)
  2. Carroll, Jonathan – The Crow’s Dinner (Subterranean Press)
  3. Sterling, Bruce – Heavy Weather
  4. Sterling, Bruce – Globalhead
  5. Russell, Mary Doria – The Sparrow
  6. Blas de Roblès, Jean-Marie – Island of Point Nemo (Open Letter Books)
  7. Kenny, Timothy – Far Country (Bottom Dog Press)
  8. Steadman, Ralph – Extinct Boids
  9. Steadman, Ralph – Nextinction
  10. Shrestha, Romio – Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery (Mandala Publishing)
  11. Yoss – A Planet for Rent (Restless Books)

September (20)

  1. Hernández, Carlos – The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (Rosarium Publishing)
  2. Merwin, W.S. – The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon Press)
  3. Merwin, W.S. – The Essential W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
  4. Two Lines, issue 27
  5. The Paris Review, issue 222
  6. Powers, Tim – Medusa’s Web; signed #462 of 474 (Subterranean Press)
  7. Gallagher, Stephen – The Authentic William James; signed #279 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  8. Carroll, Jonathan – The Crow’s Dinner; signed #312 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  9. Egan, Greg – The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred; signed #669 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  10. Grant, Mira – Final Girls; signed #1161 of 1250 (Subterranean Press)
  11. Bujold, Lois McMaster – Penric and the Shaman  (Subterranean Press)
  12. Kiernan, Caitlin R. – Dear Sweet Filthy World (Subterranean Press)
  13. Resnick, Mike – Voyages; signed #911 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  14. Reynolds, Alastair – Beyond the Aquila Rift (Subterranean Press)
  15. Shepard, Lucius – Five Autobiographies and a Fiction (Subterranean Press)
  16. Silverberg, Robert – Early Days; signed #626 of 1000 (Subterranean Press)
  17. Pugliese, Nicola – Malacqua (And Other Stories)
  18. Boullosa, Carmen – Heavens on Earth (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  19. Lahens, Yanick – Moonbath (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  20. Brandt, Per Aage – If I Were a Suicide Bomber (Open Letter Books)

October (39)

  1. Suah, Baeh – North Station (Open Letter Books)
  2. Neruda, Pablo – Book of Twilight (Copper Canyon Press)
  3. Chamoiseau, Patrick – Texaco
  4. Bishop, K.J. – The Etched City
  5. Akhmatova, Anna – Selected Poems
  6. Navarro, Elvira – A Working Woman (Two Lines Press)
  7. Unnikrishnan, Deepak – Temporary People (Restless Books)
  8. Cruz, Victor Hernandez – Red Beans (Coffee House Press)
  9. Michigan Quarterly, vol. 56 No. 2
  10. McSweeney’s #50
  11. Jemisen, N.K. – The Fifth Season
  12. VanderMeer, Jeff – Annihilation
  13. Oomen, Anne-Marie – Pulling Down the Barn (Wayne State University Press)
  14. Cooper, Wyn – Postcards from the Interior (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
  15. Cooper, Wyn – Chaos is the new Calm (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
  16. Holden, Craig – The Jazz Bird
  17. The Sutra of Hui Neng (H.K. Buddhist Book Distributor)
  18. Dobbs, David & Ober, Richard – The Northern Forest
  19. Watts, Alan – Psychotherapy East & West
  20. Kapleau, Philip – The Three Pillars of Zen
  21. Lopez, Donald S. (ed.) – Religions of Tibet in Practice
  22. Baghramian, Maria (ed.) – Modern Philosophy of Language
  23. Liu, Ken (ed.) – Invisible Planets
  24. Ward, Jesmyn – Sing, Unburied, Sing
  25. Schnurr, Ryan – In the Watershed (Belt Publishing)
  26. McLelland, Edward – How to Speak Midwestern (Belt Publishing)
  27. Nickels, Ashley and Vilella, Dani (eds) – Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  28. Sedegy, Jason (ed.) The Akron Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  29. Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Publishing)
  30. Piiparinen, Richey and Trubek, Anne (eds.) – The Cleveland Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  31. Atkinson, Scott (ed.) – Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  32. Boyd, Eric (ed.) – The Pittsburgh Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  33. Clark, Anna (ed.) – A Detroit Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  34. Foley, Aaron – The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Publishing)
  35. Foley, Aaron – How to Live In Detroit Without Being a Jackass (Belt Publishing)
  36. Bayne, Martha (ed.) – Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  37. McQuade, Zan (ed.) – The Cincinnati Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  38. Biehl, Jody K. (ed.) – Right Here, Right Now: The Buffalo Anthology (Belt Publishing)
  39. Marino, Jacqueline and Miller, Will (eds.) – Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology (Belt Publishing)

November (13)

  1. Abani, Chris – The Face: Cartography of the Void (Restless Books)
  2. Piglia, Ricardo – The Diaries of Emilio Renzi, Formative Years (Restless Books)
  3. Keni, Niyati – Esperanza Street (And Other Stories)
  4. Quin, Ann – The Unmapped Country (And Other Stories)
  5. McDermott, John J (ed). – The Writings of William James (University of Chicago Press)
  6. McPhee, John – Draft No. 4
  7. Subterranean Press Bibliography 1995 – 2015 (Subterranean Press)
  8. Hilbig, Wolfgang – Old Rendering Plant (Two Lines Press)
  9. Nielsen, Joanes – The Brahmadells (Open Letter Books)
  10. Diaz, Junot (ed.) – Global Dystopias (Boston Review)
  11. Long List Anthology vol. I
  12. McClung, Laren (ed.) – Inheriting the War
  13. Stoppard, Tom – Plays 5

December (3)

  1. Naivo – Beyond the Rice Fields (Restless Books)
  2. Silveira, Maria Jose – Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters (Open Letter Books)
  3. McSweeney’s #51