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October 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-11-012025-10-31 John Winkelman

October was a fantastic month both for reading and for acquiring new books. I had more quiet time than I have in any other month this year, and I also know that November will be exceptionally busy, due to it being the Month of Writing (formerly NaNoWriMo).

And this year has been very stressful, so I indulged in some retail therapy.

And finally, the Grand River Poetry Collective held an event on October 30 at The Lit (formerly the Ladies’ Literary Club), where I picked up all of the Collective’s books which I had not yet purchased.

So yeah, a good month to be a reader and collector of books.

Acquisitions

Books and journals which arrived in October 2025

Jeff Chang, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America [2025.10.02]
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (And Other Stories) [2025.10.06]
Shrikant Verma (Rahul Soni, translator), Magadh (And Other Stories) [2025.10.06]
Efraín Kristal, Invisible Works: Borges and Translation (Vanderbilt University Press) [2025.10.09]
Peninsula Poets, Spring 2025 [2025.10.15]
Tim Hawkins, West of the Backstory (Fernwood Press) [2025.10.18]
Peninsula Poets, Fall 2025 [2025.10.20]
David T. Courtwright, The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business (Harvard University Press) [2025.10.27]
Barbara Saunier, There is Room in a Horse For the Whole Boy (Grand River Poetry Press) [2025.10.30]
Christine Stephens-Krieger, Love Garden at the End of the World (Grand River Poetry Press) [2025.10.30]
David Cope, Moonlight Rose in Blue: Collected Poems 1971 – 2024 (Grand River Poetry Press) [2025.10.30]

Reading List

Books

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #42 [2025.10.03]
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.10]
Peninsula Poets, Spring 2025 [2025.10.19]
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1 [2025.10.19]
Peninsula Poets, Fall 2025 [2025.10.20]
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #2 [2025.10.22]
Dreamforge #5 [2025.10.26]
Dreamforge #6 [202510.28]
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #3 [2025.10.31]

Short Prose

Kameron Hurley, “Living the Old Stories” (Patreon supporter reward) [2025.10.01]
Tobias Buckell, “The Grove’s Lament” (Patreon supporter reward) [2025.10.01]
Sarah Langan, “You Have the Prettiest Mask”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #42 [2025.10.02]
Nicole Kimberling, “Nostalgia in a Box”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #42 [2025.10.03]
Vandana Singh, “Sticky Man”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #42 [2025.10.03]
Stewart Moore, “Madeline’s Wings”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #42 [2025.10.03]
Jack Larsen, “Bright and Shabby Buses”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #42 [2025.10.03]
Kristin Yuan Roybal, “Separation Theory”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #42 [2025.10.03]
Alisa Alering, “The Night Farmers’ Museum”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.05]
Ayşe Papatya Bucak, “Half-Papatya”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.05]
Erica Clashe, “The Shine of Green Floors”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.06]
Leah Bobet, “The Mysteries”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.07]
Joanne Rixon, “Wires from the Same Spool”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.07]
Quinn Ramsay, “The House of the Gutter-Prince”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.07]
Kirk A. Johnson, “Carnivora”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.1 [2025.10.08]
Jim Marino, “Acting Tips for Remaining Unknown”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.09]
Zack Moss, “If You Had Been Me Then What Would I Have Been?”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.10]
Kathleen Jennings, “Gisla and the Three Favours”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.10]
Nicole Kimberling, “Time Travel Self-Care System”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.10]
Gillian Daniels, “King Moon’s Tithe to Hell”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 [2025.10.10]
Margaret Killjoy, “Come Lay the Crone to Rest”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.1 [2025.10.11]
Bryn Hammond, “Sister Chaos”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.1 [2025.10.16]
Jesús Montalvo (Gonzalo Baezra, translator), “Chak Muuch”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.1 [2025.10.19]
Sarah A. Macklin, “Tears of Eb”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.1 [2025.10.19]
Prashanth Srivatsa, “The Pillars of Silence”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.1 [2025.10.19]
Michael Moorcock, “The Folk of the Forest”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.1 [2025.10.19]
Daniel Quiogue, “The Demon of Tashi Tzang”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.2 [2025.10.19]
Jacquie Kawaja, “Fang”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.2 [2025.10.20]
Gemma Files, “Revelstroke”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.2 [2025.10.21]
Jeremy Pak Nelson, “A Debt Forgotten, A Debt Unpaid”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.2 [2025.10.21]
J.M. Clarke, “The Eyes of the Demon”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.2 [2025.10.22]
T.K. Rex & L. Ann Kinyon, “Water, Which Laughs At All Things”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.2 [2025.10.22]
David C. Smith, “Atonement for a Resurrected God”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.2 [2025.10.22]
June Orchid Parker, “How Many Deaths Till Vengeance?”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #1.2 [2025.10.22]
Scott Edelman, “Answered Prayers”, Dreamforge #5 [2025.10.22]
Deborah L. Davitt, “Pterrors of the Caribbean, part 1”, Dreamforge #5 [2025.10.23]
Henry Szabranski, “Climbing the Motherman”, Dreamforge #5 [2025.10.23]
Jamie Munro, “Counterclockwise”, Dreamforge #5 [2025.10.23]
Floris M. Kleijne, “Summit Attempt”, Dreamforge #5 [2025.10.24]
M. T. Reiten, “Robot Princess”, Dreamforge #5 [2025.10.24]
H. Orion Kim, “The Dryad’s Smile”, Dreamforge #5 [2025.10.25]
Robert Silverberg, “House of Bones”, Dreamforge #5 [2025.10.26]
Deborah L. Davitt, “Pterrors of the Caribbean, part 2” Dreamforge #6 [2025.10.26]
Nyla Bright, “Mothers Know Buttons” Dreamforge #6 [2025.10.26]
Ronald D. Ferguson, “Never the Twain” Dreamforge #6 [2025.10.27]
Scot Noel, “Pangenesis” Dreamforge #6 [2025.10.27]
Alexandra Seidel, “The Shepherdess, the Roc, and One Errant Sheep” Dreamforge #6 [2025.10.27]
James Verran, “Silent Partnership, part 1” Dreamforge #6 [2025.10.27]
Jane Linskold, “The Problem with Magic Rings” Dreamforge #6 [2025.10.28]
Matt John, “Beating Stars, Dying Hearts”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 [2025.10.28]
Premee Mohamed, “The Betrayal of the Rhinoceros”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 [2025.10.29]
Thomas Ha, “St. Fario’s Feast”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 [2025.10.30]
John R. Fultz, “Gravediggers of Carsonne”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 [2025.10.30]
Oliver Brackenbury, “Something Oathlike”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 [2025.10.30]
Molly Tanzer, “Jirel and the Mirror of Truth”, New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 [2025.10.31]

September 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-10-012025-10-09 John Winkelman

Summer was frustrating and hellish so I indulged in a little retail therapy. Poetry and philosophy help me settle my nerves.

Acquisitions

Salvage #15 [2025.09.07]
Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland [2025.09.07] – Purchased from Books & Mortar.
Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (Verso Books) [2025.09.20] – Purchased from Black Dog Books and Records.
Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan (editors), Autotheories (MIT Press) [2025.09.26] – Purchased on a whim.
Camille Newsom, Purgatory Junkie (Main Street Rag Enterprises) [2025.09.26] – Purchased from the author.
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (Critical Editions) [2025.09.27] – Purchased on a whim.
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil [2025.09.29] – Purchased after watching Hannah Arendt.
Mmeory (Air and Nothingness Press) [2025.09.29] – Reward from a recent Kickstarter campaign

Reading

Books

Jim Harrison, Returning to Earth (re-read) [2025.09.14]
Juan Felipe Herrera, Notes on the Assemblage [2025.09.18]
Yuri Herrera (Lisa Dillman, translator), Season of the Swamp [2025.09.26]
Camille Newsom, Purgatory Junkie [2025.09.28]

Short Prose

Kameron Hurley, “Traveling Light, In Love” [2025.09.07]
Jim C. Hines, “No Such Thing as a Free Twinkie” [2025.09.21]

August 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-09-012025-10-09 John Winkelman

August was an insanely busy month for me, but did offer up occasional reading time, mostly in airplanes, and at airports, and sitting in the public areas of convention centers before anybody else was awake.

Acquisitions

Kaja and Phil Foglio, An Entertainment in Londinium (Airship Entertainment) [2025.08.05] – Kickstarter reward
Eugene Vodolazkin, The History of the Island (Plough Publishing) [2025.08.14] – Purchased at Snowbound Books in Marquette, Michigan
Juan Felipe Herrera, Notes on the Assemblage (City Lights Books) [2025.08.14] – Purchased at Snowbound Books in Marquette, MI
Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Colleen Doran (artist), Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel (Dunmanifestin, Ltd.) [2025.08.25] – Reward for a Kickstarter which persevered through multiple rounds of slings and arrows over the past couple of years.
Zig Zag Claybourne, Amnandi Sails (Obsidian Sky Books) [2025.08.29]

Reading

Books

Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine [2025.08.17]
Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (re-read) [2025.08.24]
Dennis E. Taylor, For We Are Many (re-read) [2025.08.25]
Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds (re-read) [2025.08.26]

Short Prose

Kameron Hurley, “The Wonder” [2025.08.28]

July 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-08-012025-10-10 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

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

Reading List

Books

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

Short Prose

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

June 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-07-012025-10-10 John Winkelman

June was a pretty good month for reading, considering the almost complete lack of free time, thanks to an intense work project and the arrival of summer with all of its related activities. I think the standout was Zig Zag Claybourne’s Breath, Warmth, and Dream, which was absolutely beautiful. I backed the Kickstarter campaign for book two of the trilogy, and am eagerly awaiting its arrival.

It was interesting to dive into Heavy Metal, which I first read in the early eighties, I think, when I was probably a little too young to be reading things which were DEFINITELY aimed at an older audience. The writing and artwork for this new generation of Heavy Metal compares quite favorably to the original run from more than forty years ago.

Acquisitions

Voices 2025 [2025.06.07] – Picked up at the Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition winner’s celebration.
Inque Magazine #3 [2025.06.24]

Reading List

Books

Heavy Metal #001 [2025.06.01]
Metal Hurlant #1 [2025.06.02]
Voices 2025 [2025.06.07]
Zig Zag Claybourne, Breath, Warmth, and Dream [2025.06.18]
Wolfgang Hilbig (Isabel Fargo Cole, translator) , Old Rendering Plant [2025.06.25]

Short Prose

Kameron Hurley, “Not My City” (Patreon post)

May 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-06-012025-10-26 John Winkelman

May was a pretty good month for both reading and acquiring reading material. A brief illness over the Memorial Day weekend allowed me more quiet time, and I took advantage of it by binge-reading the excellent Kraken Rider Z books. This was the first time I binge-read a series in at least a decade. Highly recommended.

Acquisitions

Jim Harrison, The Theory and Practice of Rivers (Copper Canyon Press) [2025.05.06] – Purchased from the publisher.
Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems (City Lights Books) [2025.05.07] – Purchased from The Book Nook and Java Shop in Montague, Michigan
Jack Hirschman, Front Lines: Selected Poems (City Lights Books) [2025.05.07] – Purchased from The Book Nook and Java Shop in Montague, Michigan
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger [2025.05.09] – Purchased from Books and Mortar in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Soliloquey #2 [2025.05.13] – Purchased from the author at a Grand River Poetry Collective meeting.
Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions and How the World Lost Its Mind (The University of Chicago Press) [2025.05.19] – Purchased from the publisher after reading about it in a comment on a Naked Capitalism post.
Metal Hurlant #1 [2025.05.20] – From a Kickstarter campaign run by the publisher.
SJ Kim, This Part is Silent – A Life Between Cultures (And Other Stories) [2025.05.23] – Received from the publisher.
Heavy Metal #001 [2025.05.27]

Reading List

Books

Robin McLean, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.08]
Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems [2025.05.13]
Soliloquy #2 [2025.05.19]
Dyrk Ashton and David Estes, Kraken Rider Z [2025.05.24]
Dyrk Ashton and David Estes, Kraken Rider Z: Thunder Kraken [2025.05.26]
Jack Hirschman, Front Lines: Selected Poems [2025.05.31]

Short Prose

Kameron Hurley, “When the Stars Fell” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
Jim C. Hines, “Launch Day Milkshakes” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
Kameron Hurley, “The Wake” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
Kameron Hurley, “The Sea of Ruin” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
Robin McLean, “Get ’em Young, treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.02]
Robin McLean, “True Carnivores”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.02]
Robin McLean, “Big Black Man”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.02]
Robin McLean, “Judas Cradle”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.03]
Robin McLean, “Cat”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.03]
Robin McLean, “House Full of Feasting”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.04]
Robin McLean, “Cliff Ordeal”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.06]
Robin McLean, “Alpha”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.08]
Jim C. Hines, “The Haunting of Jig’s Ear” (Patreon post) [2025.05.19]
Frey Lylark, “Changeling” (Patreon post by Apex Book Company) [2025.05.20]

April 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-05-012025-10-29 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

Our Dust Earth (Air and Nothingness Press) [2025.04.07] – Acquired through a Kickstarter campaign run by Air and Nothingness Press
Gerald Murnane, Barley Patch (And Other Stories) [2025.04.14] – The latest arrival from my subscription to And Other Stories.
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
Lesley Connor and Jason Sizemore (editors), Robotic Ambitions (Apex Book Company) [2024.04.21]

Reading List

Books

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

Short Prose

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

March 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-04-012025-11-02 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

Melissa Wray, Small Gestures (Grand River Poetry Collective) [2025.03.14] – Received as a gift from the Grand River Poetry Collective
LeRoi Jones, Home: Social Essays [2025.03.23] – Purchased from Black Dog Books and Records
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast [2025.03.23] – Purchased from Black Dog Books and Records
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
Jean Baudrillard (Sheila Faria Glaser, translator), Simulacra and Simulation (University of Michigan Press) [2025.03.28] – Purchased from the publisher

Reading List

Books

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

Short Prose

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

February 2025 Books and Reading Notes

2025-03-012025-11-02 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

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

Reading List

Books

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago [2025.02.14]

Short Prose

Jim C. Hines, “Kitemaster” (Patreon post) [2025.02.11]
Samuel Beckett, “Dante and the Lobster”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.14]
Jack Kerouac, “October in the Railroad Earth”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.14]
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.]
Kameron Hurley, “At the Crossroads of Many Futures” (Patreon post) [2025.02.16]
Tobias S. Buckell, “The Last Cathedral of Earth, In Flight” (Patreon post) [2025.02.17]
Alexander Trocchi, “From Cain’s Book“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.18]
John Rechy, “From City of Night“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.18]
William Eastlake, “Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.18]
Carlos Fuentes (Lysander Kemp, translator), “The Life Line”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.21]
Juan Rulfo (Lysander Kemp, translator), “From Pedro Páramo“, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.22]
Octavio Paz, “Todos Santos, Día de Muertos”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.24]
Henry Miller, “Defense of the Freedom to Read”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.24]
William Eastlake, “Three Heroes and a Clown”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.25]
Terry Southern, “Red-Dirt Marihuana”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.25]
William S. Burroughs, “Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.26]
Eugène Ionesco, “Foursome”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.26]
Martin Williams, “Charlie Parker: The Burden of Innovation”, The Evergreen Review Reader, 1957 – 1966 [2025.02.28]

January 2025 Books and Reading Notes

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

Acquisitions

Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Connor (editors), The Map of Lost Places (Apex Book Company) [2025.01.14]
David Estes and Dyrk Ashton, Kraken Rider Z: Thunder Kraken (Wraithmarked Creative, LLC) [2025.01.15]
Stephen Leigh, A Fading Sun [2025.01.24]- A gift from the author, received at ConFusion 2025 (inscribed)
Stephen Leigh, A Rising Moon [2025.01.24] – A gift from the author, along with the previous books, received at ConFusion 2025. (inscribed)
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.
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

Jordan S. Carroll, Speculative Whiteness [2025.01.27]