Tag: Frantz Fanon

July 2025 Books and Reading Notes

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]

Weekly Round-up, March 22, 2025

John Winkelman

Red Maple buds against an overcast afternoon sky.

[Red Maple buds against an overcast afternoon sky.]

Another hectic week. Not a lot accomplished outside of work and working out. I spent what little down time I usually have helping my partner set up a new office, which will allow her to move her business supplies out of the storage unit where they have gathered dust for the past two years. That, and some unexpected house maintenance tasks, filled my days and my mind.

Reading

Immediately after acquiring Melissa Wray’s poetry collection Small Gestures, I read it, and it was beautiful! Next I read Portuguese writer Maria Judite De Carvalho’s Empty Wardrobes, which I received a few years back, when I had a subscription to Two Lines Press of the Center for the Art of Translation. Money and space are tighter now so I had to let that subscription lapse, but I still have over a dozen books from Two Lines Press which I have not yet read. And a pile of books from Deep Vellum, and another from Open Letter, and another from Ugly Duckling Presse, and a large pile from And Other Stories, which is the only publisher to whom I have a subscription.

Friday morning (yesterday, when this is posted) I treated myself to an early morning at Scorpion Hearts Club, where I drank two delicious lattes and cracked open Frantz Fanon‘s The Wretched of the Earth, which I picked up a few months ago from Black Dog Books and Records. Only a dozen pages in, and this book is blowing my mind wide open.

Writing

One day I will have the time, energy, and attention span together to write something creative and good, but today is not that day.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Revenge, Fae
Setting: Small Town
Genre: Noir

Listening

Yes, “Leave It”, from their 1983 album 90125.

Interesting Links

April 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

April was National Poetry Month, and I didn’t read as much poetry this time as I have in past years. Part of that was my specific choices for poetry books, and part was general business and mental exhaustion. As you can see from the list below, I have spent most of my reading time buried in All that is Evident is Suspect, a collection of writing from members of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or “Workshop for Potential Literature”). The writing therein is frying my brain in the very best way. Highly recommended.

Acquisitions

Books I acquired in the month of April 2024

  1. Lauren T. Davila (editor), To Root Somewhere Beautiful: An Anthology of Reclamation (Outland Entertainment) [2024.04.10] – Purchased through a Kickstarter campaign run by Outland Entertainment.
  2. Frantz Fanon (Richard Philcox, translator), The Wretched of the Earth [2024.04.20] – Purchased from a fantastic new store which opened the weekend of 4/20: Black Dog Books and Records. I see myself shopping there a lot.

Reading List

Books and other material I read in April 2024

Books and Journals

  1. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast [2024.04.07]
  2. Paul Celan (John Felstiner, translator), Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan [2024.04.12]
  3. Kirk Jones, Aetherchrist [2024.04.16]
  4. Jean Daive (Norma Cole, translator), A Woman With Several Lives [2024.04.18]

Short Prose

  1. Raymond Queneau, “Slept Cried”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963 – 2018 [2024.04.18]
  2. Jacques Duchateau, “Lecture on the Oulipo at Cerisy-la-Salle”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.19]
  3. Latis, “The Atheist Organist”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.20]
  4. Marcel Duchamp, “Correspondence With the Oulipo”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.20]
  5. Albert-Marie Schmidt, “Letter to the Oulipo”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.21]
  6. Claude Berge, “Letter to Jacques Roubaud & Georges Perec”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.21]
  7. François Le Lionnais, “Idea Box”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.21]
  8. Jean Lescure, “The N+7 Method”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.21]
  9. Georges Perec, “Alphabet for Stämpfli”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.22]
  10. Italo Calvino, “How I Wrote One of My Books”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.22]
  11. Luc Étienne, “Bilingual Palindromes”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.22]
  12. Stanley Chapman, “Letter to Valérie Guidoux”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.23]
  13. André Blavier, “Literary Lunatics”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.23]
  14. Jean Queval, “Circular Reflections from an Immobile Insect”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.24]
  15. Michèle Métail, “Fifty Oscillatory Poems”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.25]
  16. Marcel Bénabou, “Ebony Cup and Ivory Ball, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.25]
  17. Jacques Bens, “How to Tell a Story”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.25]
  18. Paul Braffort, “Invisible Libraries”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.26]
  19. Noël Arnaud, “The Last Minutes”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.26]
  20. Michelle Grangaud, “Gesture”, All That Is Evident Is Suspect [2024.04.26]