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February 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

Now that I am no longer trapped under a volume of Dostoevsky I can resume my normal reading pace. In February I completed 16 books and journals. Sure, that sounds like a lot, but I purposefully picked the shorted unread books on my bookshelves. The combined word-count of these 16 books is probably less than a third of what I read in Dostoevsky’s Demons, which took almost two months to finish. And a lot of that was not because of the length of the book, but because it was Dostoevsky, and 1,000 words of Dostoevsky is, like, at least 1,500 words of anyone else.

A lot of these shorter works are graphic novels, or works in translations from works-in-translation publishers like Deep Vellum, And Other Stories, Open Letter Books, and Two Lines Press.

Acquisitions

  1. Andrzej Tichý (Nichola Smalley, translator), Purity (And Other Stories) [2024.02.24] – The newest arrival from my subscription to And Other Stories.

Reading List

Books

  1. Wolfgang Hilbig (Isabel Fargo Cole, translator), The Tidings of the Trees [2024.02.01] – Well written and well-translated, but just couldn’t get into this one. Fortunately I have more Hilbig in my library so I can give him another chance.
  2. Saladin Ahmed and Dave Acosta, Dragon [2024.02.01] – Fantastically written and beautifully-illustrated graphic novel. I will now need to seek out more of Ahmed’s comic writings.
  3. Elizabeth A. Trembley, Look Again: A Memoir [2024.02.01] – An amazing memoir about how the stories we tell ourselves (and about ourselves) change over time, and with the telling.
  4. Duanwad Pimwana (Mui Poopoksakul, translator), Bright [2024.02.05]
  5. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #41 [2024.02.08]
  6. Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages, Wakulla Springs [2024.02.10]
  7. Chris Abani, The Face: Cartography of the Void [2024.02.10]
  8. Ruth Ozeki, The Face: A Time Code [2024.02.11]
  9. Tash Aw, The Face: Strangers on a Pier [2024.02.11]
  10. Oleg Sentsov (Uilleam Blacker, translator), Life Went On Anyway [2024.02.12]
  11. Maurice Broaddus, Buffalo Soldiers [2024.02.15] – Excellent novella in the steampunk tradition. Truly enjoyable reading experience. My only complaint is that this wasn’t a full-size novel.
  12. Anne Garréta (Emma Ramadan, translator), Not One Day [2024.02.17]
  13. Kim Sagwa (Sunhee Jeong, translator), b, Book, and Me [2024.02.21]
  14. Fouad Laroui (Emma Ramadan, translator), The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.25]
  15. Carmen Boullosa (Peter Bush, translator), Before [2024.02.26]
  16. Valérie Mréjen (Katie Shireen Assef, translator), Black Forest [2024.02.27]

Short Prose

  1. Rachel Ayers, “Magicians & Grotesques”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #41 [2024.02.07]
  2. Nicole Kimberling, “Quarantine Pantry Challenge”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #41 [2024.02.07]
  3. Holly Tamsin, “Fogdog Films”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #41 [2024.02.08]
  4. David Fawkes, “Letterghost”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #41 [2024.02.08]
  5. Oleg Sentsov, “Autobiography (In Literary Form)”, Life Went On Anyway [2024.02.11]
  6. Oleg Sentsov, “Dog”, Life Went On Anyway [2024.02.11]
  7. Oleg Sentsov, “Childhood”, Life Went On Anyway [2024.02.11]
  8. Oleg Sentsov, “Hospital”, Life Went On Anyway [2024.02.12]
  9. Oleg Sentsov, “School”, Life Went On Anyway [2024.02.12]
  10. Oleg Sentsov, “Testament”, Life Went On Anyway [2024.02.12]
  11. Oleg Sentsov, “Grandma”, Life Went On Anyway [2024.02.12]
  12. Oleg Sentsov, “The Makars”, Life Went On Anyway [2024.02.12]
  13. Jim C. Hines, “The Blue Corpse Corps” (Patreon subscriber story) [2024.12.15]
  14. Fouad Laroui, “The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers”, The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.21]
  15. Fouad Laroui, “Dislocation”, The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.22]
  16. Fouad Laroui, “Born Nowhere”, The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.22]
  17. Fouad Laroui, “Khouribga, or the Laws of the Universe”, The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.25]
  18. Fouad Laroui, “What’s Not Said in Brussels”, The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.25]
  19. Fouad Laroui, “Bennani’s Bodyguard”, The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.25]
  20. Fouad Laroui, “The Invention of Dry Swimming”, The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.25]
  21. Fouad Laroui, “Fifteen Minutes as Philosophers”, The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.25]
  22. Fouad Laroui, “The Night Before”, The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers [2024.02.25]

January 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

After almost two months, I finally finished Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Wow, was that a slog. A good slog, but a slog nonetheless. Now on to fifteen or twenty shorter, easier reads before attempting something arduous.

Almost all of the books I acquired in January were purchased at, or in anticipation of, ConFusion 2024.

Acquisitions

  1. David Estes and Dyrk Ashton, Kraken Rider Z (Wraithmarked Creative) [2024.01.03] – I have been a fan of Dyrk Ashton’s work for several years. We are Convention friends, and he is a Righteous Dude.
  2. Jean Davis, Frayed (self-published) [2024.01.19] – purchased from Davis at ConFusion 2024.
  3. Michael J. DeLuca, Night Roll (Stelliform Press) [2024.01.20] – Purchased from Reckoning Press at ConFusion 2024.
  4. Reckoning: Creativity and Coronavirus (Reckoning Press) [2024.01.20] – Purchased from Reckoning Press at ConFusion 2024.
  5. Reckoning #6 [2024.01.20] – Purchased from Reckoning Press at ConFusion 2024.
  6. Reckoning #7 [2024.01.20] – Purchased from Reckoning Press at ConFusion 2024.
  7. Zack Be (editor), Inner Workings: A Calendar of Fools Anthology (Calendar of Fools, LLC) [2024.01.20] – Purchased from Storm Humbert during a group signing at ConFusion 2024.
  8. Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth [2024.01.21] – Purchased at ConFusion 2024.
  9. Lesley Connor and Jason Sizemore (editors), Robotic Ambitions (Apex Book Company) [2024.01.21] – Reward for a Kickstarter campaign run by Apex.

Reading List

Books

  1. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear, translators), Demons [2024.01.26]
  2. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2023.01.29]
  3. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2023.01.30]

Short Prose

  1. Jim C. Hines, “The Girls From the Hood” (Patreon post) [2024.01.15]
  2. Rosamund Lannin, “The Lake House”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.26]
  3. Jim C. Hines, “Coyote Cave” (Patreon post) [2024.01.28]
  4. Eliza Langhans, “A Giants’ Heart”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.28]
  5. D. A. Xiaolin Spires, “Fresh and Imminent Taste of Cucumbers”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.28]
  6. Anthony Ha, “Late Train”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.28]
  7. Chloe N. Clark, “Jumpers”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.28]
  8. Nicole Kimberling, “Sugar-Salt Time: A Love Story”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.28]
  9. Felix Kent, “Dynastic Arrangements of the Habsburgs, Washakie Branch”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.28]
  10. Eric Darby, “The Parking Witch”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.29]
  11. Gavin J. Grant, “Possum, Not Playing”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.29]
  12. Jordan Taylor, “Strange Engines”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.29]
  13. Audrey R. Hollis, “How to Be Afraid”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39 [2024.01.29]
  14. Frances Rowat, “Ink, and Breath, and Spring”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.29]
  15. Fred Nadis, “The Giant Jew”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.29]
  16. Amber Burke, “In Pictures”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.29]
  17. T.S. McAdams, “Duck Circles”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.29]
  18. Margo Lanagan, “More Information to Help You Get to Rookwood”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.30]
  19. Mary Cool, “The Fruit That Bears the Flowers”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.30]
  20. Lisa Martin, “Seat Belt On, Falling”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.30]
  21. Jeff Benz, “The Stone People”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.30]
  22. Nicole Kimberling, “We Should See Less of Each Other”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.30]
  23. Michael Byers, “Sibling Rivalry”, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #40 [2024.01.30]

December 2023 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

Despite my best efforts, I didn’t manage to read more books than I acquired this year. But my acquiring was wonderful, and so was the reading.

Acquisitions

  1. New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine 1.1 (Fall 2023) [2023.12.06] – Excellent magazine from a Kickstarter I backed a while ago. I am really looking forward to reading this.
  2. New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine 1.2 (Fall 2023) [2023.12.06]
  3. Manya Wilkinson, Lublin (And Other Stories) [2023.12.18]
  4. Jonathan Maberry (editor), The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny (Outland Entertainment) [2023.12.20]
  5. Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Olha Brylova, Iryna Pasko (editors), Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine & the Diaspora (Atthis Arts) [2023.12.21]

Reading List

Books

  1. Antonio Machado, Fields of Castile [2023.12.12]
  2. Min Jin Lee, Pachinko [2023.12.16]

November 2023 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

Not much reading this month, as National Novel Writing Month took all of my time and brain space. I started reading Pachinko, but only made it through a couple of hundred pages before the end of the month. And next month is Dostoevsky December, so I will be burying myself in a work of classic Russian literature.

I picked up some new reading material in November, thanks to a visit to the 2023 Grand Rapids ComicCon, and also to Jason of Lakeshore Literary for his gift of the most recent issues of The Lakeshore Review.

Acquisitions

  1. Jean Davis, Chain of Grey (self-published) [2023.11.03] – Purchased from the author at the 2023 Grand Rapids ComicCon
  2. Jean Davis, Bound in Blue (self-published) [2023.11.03] – Purchased from the author at the 2023 Grand Rapids ComicCon
  3. Nina Varela, Crier’s War [2023.11.05] – Purchased from the author at the 2023 Grand Rapids ComicCon
  4. The Lakeshore Review #3 [2023.11.11] – Received as a gift from the publisher
  5. The Lakeshore Review #4 [2023.11.11] – Received as a gift from the publisher

Reading List

Short Prose

  1. Jim C. Hines, “Mightier than the Sword” (Patreon) [2023.11.16]

October 2023 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

October was an excellent month for books, thanks primarily to me having a couple of weeks off from work to rest and recover and read and visit bookstores. I didn’t read as much as I would have liked, due to overall burnout, but again, what my reading list lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality.

Acquisitions

  1. Jean Daive (Rosmarie Waldrop, translator), Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan (City Lights Books) [2023.10.03] – Purchased at The Book Nook& Java Shop in Montague, Michigan. This was a spur-of-the-moment purchase. I saw the City Lights logo and pulled the book down, opened it to a random couple of pages, and immediately became obsessed. It’s not often that I read a book in the same month that I purchase it.
  2. Elmore Leonard, When the Women Come Out to Dance [2023.10.06] – Purchased at Argos Books and Comics in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I recently read Get Shorty, because the movie version is one of my all-time favorites. This collection contains the short story “Fire in the Hole,” which is the basis for the TV series Justified, which is very good.
  3. R.F. Kuang, Babel [2023.10.06] – Purchased at Books & Mortar Bookstore in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I read Kuang’s Yellowface a few weeks back and quite enjoyed it. This one has been on my TBR list for some time, so I when I saw it at Books & Mortar, I grabbed a copy.
  4. Jim C. Hines, Amelia Sand and the Silver Queens (self-published) – This is the reward for Hines’ latest Kickstarter.
  5. Antonio Machado (Stanley Appelbaum, translator), Fields of Castile/Campos de Castilla [2023.10.15] – Purchased from Books and Mortar Bookstore in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A few months ago, after looking up interviews with Cormac McCarthy, YouTube began suggesting clips from a movie called The Counsellor. I had never heard of it, but it looked intriguing. The first clip I watched was from the end of the movie, and consisted of a conversation between Michael Fassbender and Rubén Blades. It was a powerful scene and the poetry of Machado figured prominently. I watched a few more scenes from the movie, enough to realize that (a) I really need to see it, and (b) I need to be in the right frame of mind because it is VERY dark. So I have not yet seen the movie but I do have some Machado to read in the meantime.
  6. Paul Celan (John Felstiner, translator), Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan [2023.10.15] – Purchased from Books and Mortar Bookstore in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I ordered this after reading about fifty pages of Under the Dome. I knew Celan’s name, but nothing more. I am very much looking forward to reading this one.
  7. Jean Daive (Norma Cole, translator), A Woman With Several Lives (La Presse) [2023.10.23] – Purchased from Books and Mortar Bookstore in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Also purchased after reading a few dozen pages of Under the Dome. Also looking forward to reading it.
  8. Marosia Castaldi (Jamie Richards, translator), The Hunger of Women (And Other Stories) [2023.10.27] – From my subscription to And Other Stories.
  9. Michele Mari (Brian Robert Moore, translator), Verdigris (And Other Stories) [2023.10.27] – From my subscription to And Other Stories.
  10. Lutz Seiler (Martyn Crucefix, translator), In Case of Loss (And Other Stories) [2023.10.27] – From my subscription to And Other Stories.

Reading List

Books

  1. Shawn Speakman, The Tempered Steel of Antiquity Grey [2023.10.02]
  2. Olga Tokarczuk (Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead [2023.10.17]
  3. Jean Daive (Rosmarie Waldrop, translator), Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan [2023.10.18]
  4. Ai Jiang and Christi Nogle (editors), Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia [2023.10.26]

Short Prose

  1. Jennifer Fliss, “Ijo de Ken Sos Tu?”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.18]
  2. Simo Srinivas, “The Girls of St. X”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.19]
  3. Jo Kaplan, “Humanities 215”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.19]
  4. Amber Chen, “Hugging the Buddha’s Feet”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.21]
  5. Cyrus Amelia Fisher, “In Vast and Fecund Reaches We Will Meet Again”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.21]
  6. John Langan, “Applicatio”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.21]
  7. Steve Rasnic Tem, “Higher Powers”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.22]
  8. Michael A. Reed, “Twisted Tongues”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.22]
  9. Brian Evenson, “The Allard Residency”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.23]
  10. Hussani Abdulrahim, “The Library Virus”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.23]
  11. R.B. Lemberg, “The Occupation of the Migratory Library of Oanno”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.24]
  12. Gabino Iglesias, “Tiny Hearts in the Dark”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.24]
  13. Ana Hurtado, “Parásito”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.24]
  14. Suzan Palumbo, “The Davinci Chip”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.25]
  15. Ayida Shonibar, “An Inordinate Amount of Interest”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.25]
  16. Premee Mohamed, “Preservation of an Intact Specimen”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.25]
  17. Octavia Cade, “Those Shining Things Are Out of Reach”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.25]
  18. Marisca Pichette, “Her Finished Wings”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.26]
  19. R.J. Joseph, “Those Who Teach Pay Knowledge Forward”, Wilted Pages [2023.10.26]

September 2023 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

This was an excellent month for acquiring books funded through Kickstarter. Three of the four new arrivals are crowdfunded, and the last is from my (surprisingly persistent, but not unwelcome) subscription to And Other Stories.

For reading, September was a slow month. I had a lot on my mind, and multiple side projects demanding my attention, and my reading pace therefore suffered. But what my reading pile lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. So it goes.

Acquisitions

  1. Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Verso) [2023.09.02] – Reward from a Kickstarter campaign.
  2. Douglas Adams, Kevin Jon Davies (editor), 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams (Unbound Books) [2023.09.03] – Reward from a Kickstarter campaign. This one was long-awaited, as I backed it in March of 2021. Things Happened in the world in the intervening years, and my patience was well-rewarded, as this book is absolutely gorgeous!
  3. Ai Jiang and Christi Nogle (editors), Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia (Shortwave Publishing) [2023.09.05] – Another Kickstarter reward. I have never read any Dark Academia stories, so an anthology seemed like a good place to start.
  4. Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth (And Other Stories) [2023.09.22] – The latest book from my one remaining subscription.

Reading List

Books

  1. Jim Harrison, The Raw and the Cooked (re-read) [2023.09.16]
  2. June Jordan, The Essential June Jordan [2023.09.24]
  3. Maurizio Lazzarato, Governing by Debt [2023.09.28]

July 2023 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

Acquisitions

  1. Aaron A. Reid, 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon and Everything In Between (Changeful Tales Press) [2023.07.03] – Kickstarter reward
  2. Salvage #13 [2023.07.25]
  3. Iman Mersal (Robin Moger, translator), Traces of Enayat (And Other Stories) [2023.07.26] – from my subscription to the publisher

Reading List

Books

  1. China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting [2023.07.10]
  2. Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty [2023.07.20]
  3. Todd Sanders (editor), The Librarian [2023.07.20]
  4. N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make [2023.07.24]
  5. Chris McCabe (editor), Poems From the Edge of Extinction [2023.07.28]

Short Prose

  1. Zachary Rosenberg, “The Unbroken Chain”, The Librarian [2023.07.10]
  2. E.J. Delaney, “Where Stories Meet”, The Librarian [2023.07.10]
  3. Indigo Emmerson, “The Girl and the Mouse”, The Librarian [2023.07.10]
  4. Michael Teasdale, “Tree of Knowledge”, The Librarian [2023.07.11]
  5. Jane Doring, “Rubble at Dawn”, The Librarian [2023.07.12]
  6. Kenzie Lappin, “Old Haunts”, The Librarian [2023.07.12]
  7. Azlïn Auckburally, “Small Promises”, The Librarian [2023.07.12]
  8. Elizabeth Snow, “The Anamatra”, The Librarian [2023.07.13]
  9. Henry Hertz, “Libbie and Dewey’s Excellent Adventure”, The Librarian [2023.07.14]
  10. D.G.P. Rector, “A Light Unmatched In All Depths”, The Librarian [2023.07.14]
  11. J.D. Harlock, “All The Things You Will Do”, The Librarian [2023.07.15]
  12. Nathan Waddell, “The Art of Seeing”, The Librarian [2023.07.15]
  13. Laurel Doud and Katrice Marroquin, “Dr. Strangefrog and the Doomsday Device”, The Librarian [2023.07.15]
  14. Larry Ivkovich, “A Light in the Fair”, The Librarian [2023.07.16]
  15. Sean Monaghan, “Farewell Kelary, Farewell”, The Librarian [2023.07.16]
  16. Katrina Middleburg, “The Arrival”, The Librarian [2023.07.16]
  17. A.P. Hawkins, “Stolen History”, The Librarian [2023.07.17]
  18. Waverly X. Night, “The Bar at the End of the World”, The Librarian [2023.07.17]
  19. Storm Humbert, “Proof of Magic”, The Librarian [2023.07.18]
  20. Anya Markov, “Rhyme Time”, The Librarian [2023.07.18]
  21. Leo Otherland, “The Haunting of Branch 19”, The Librarian [2023.07.19]
  22. Carter Lappin, “Book Circulation”, The Librarian [2023.07.19]
  23. CL Hart, “More than Color”, The Librarian [2023.07.19]
  24. Ana Sun, La Bibliotheque D’Objets Quotidiens”, The Librarian [2023.07.20]

June 2023 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

June is my birthday month, and I celebrated by driving clockwise around Lake Michigan, starting in my home town of Grand Rapids and hitting Madison, Marquette, and Sault Ste Marie before returning home. In each city, we stopped at an independent bookstore where I offered my monetary support in exchange for bound bundles of words. That, plus the arrival of a couple of Kickstarter rewards, made this the biggest book acquisition month of the year thus far.

Acquisitions

  1. Rihannon Rasmussen and dave ring (editors), Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention (Neon Hemlock Press) [2023.06.02] – Kickstarter reward
  2. China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto (Haymarket Books) [2023.06.03] – Purchased from Books and Mortar bookstore in Grand Rapids, Michigan
  3. Maurizio Lazzarato, Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution (Semiotext(e)) [2023.06.06] – Purchased at A Room of One’s Own bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin
  4. R.F. Kuang, Yellowface [2023.06.06] – Purchased at A Room of One’s Own bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin
  5. Chris McCabe (editor), Poems from the Edge of Extinction [2023.06.08] – Purchased at Snowbound Books in Marquette, Michigan
  6. Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise [2023.06.09] – Purchased at Island Books and Crafts in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
  7. Florence McClinchey, Joe Pete (Ziibi Press) [2023.06.09] – Purchased at Island Books and Crafts in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
  8. Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier (editors), Solar Flare: Solarpunk Stories (Zombies Need Brains) [2023.06.30]
  9. S.C. Butler and Joshua Palmatier (editors), Dragonesque (Zombies Need Brains) [2023.06.30]
  10. Stephen Kotowych and Tony Pi (editors), Game On! (Zombies Need Brains) [2023.06.30]
  11. David B. Coe and Edmund B. Schubert (editors), Artifice & Craft (Zombies Need Brains) [2023.06.30]

Reading List

Books

  1. Jim Harrison, Returning to Earth (re-read) [2023.06.04]
  2. R.F. Kuang, Yellowface [2023.06.16]
  3. Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. [2023.06.24]
  4. Jonathan C. Creasy (editor), Black Mountain Poems: An Anthology [2023.06.25]
  5. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Nomadology: The War Machine [2023.06.30]

May 2023 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

May was a slightly better month for reading than April, if only because there was more daylight to be had and I had the occasional opportunity to sit on the porch with a glass of wine.

Acquisitions

  1. Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes [2023.05.07]
  2. China Mieville, The City & The City [2023.05.07]
  3. Kaja and Phil Foglio, Girl Genius vol. 20: The Exorcism Engines (Studio Foglio) [2023.05.30]

Reading List

Books

  1. Alexander Darwin, The Combat Codes (ebook), self-published [2023.05.06]
  2. Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes [2023.05.07]
  3. Arne De Boever and Warren Neidich (editors), The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Part 1 [2023.05.24]
  4. Sayaka Murata (Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator), Earthlings [2023.05.28]
  5. Angela Boord, Fortune’s Fool (ebook), self-published [2023.05.29]

Short Prose

  1. Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “The Mind’s We: Morphogenesis and the Chaosmic Spasm, Social Recomposition, Technological Change and Neuroplasticity”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.08]
  2. Jason Smith, “Soul on Strike”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.08]
  3. Tiziana Terranova, “Ordinary Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.13]
  4. Jodi Dean, “Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.14]
  5. Arne de Boever, “‘All of us go a little crazy at times’: Capital and Fiction in a State of Generalized Psychosis”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.15]
  6. Jonathan Beller, “Pathologistics of Attention, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.19]
  7. Bruce Wexler, “Neuroplasticity, Culture and Society”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.22]
  8. Warren Neidich, “Neuropower: Art in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism”, The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, part 1 [2023.05.24]