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September 2025 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

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

Acquisitions

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

Reading

Books

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

Short Prose

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

 

August 2025 Books and Reading Notes

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

  1. Kaja and Phil Foglio, An Entertainment in Londinium (Airship Entertainment) [2025.08.05] – Kickstarter reward
  2. Eugene Vodolazkin, The History of the Island (Plough Publishing) [2025.08.14] – Purchased at Snowbound Books in Marquette, Michigan
  3. Juan Felipe Herrera, Notes on the Assemblage (City Lights Books) [2025.08.14] – Purchased at Snowbound Books in Marquette, MI
  4. 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.
  5. Zig Zag Claybourne, Amnandi Sails (Obsidian Sky Books) [2025.08.29]

Reading

Books

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

Short Prose

  1. Kameron Hurley, “The Wonder” [2025.08.28]