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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 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

In August I returned to short prose for the first time since May. It is a strange consequence of having little free time or attention that I have space in my head for fractions of large stories, but not complete smaller stories. Will need to investigate and submit my notes to the Academy.

Acquisitions

  1. Hanne Ørstavik (Martin Aitken, translator), Stay with Me (And Other Stories) [2024.08.14]
  2. Salvage #14 [2024.08.16]

Reading List

Books

  1. Jim Harrison, Farmer [2024.08.09]
  2. Jen Haeger, Whispers of a Killer [2024.08.13]
  3. Thomas McGuane, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.27]
  4. Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders [2024.08.30]

Short Prose

  1. Thomas McGuane, “Vicious Circle”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.15]
  2. Thomas McGuane, “Cowboy”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.17]
  3. Thomas McGuane, “Ice”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.18]
  4. Thomas McGuane, “Old Friends”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.20]
  5. Thomas McGuane, “North Coast”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.21]
  6. Thomas McGuane, “The Zombie”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.23]
  7. Thomas McGuane, “Miracle Boy”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.25]
  8. Thomas McGuane, “Aliens”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.27]
  9. Thomas McGuane, “The Refugee”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.27]
  10. Thomas McGuane, “Gallantin Canyon”, Gallantin Canyon [2024.08.27]

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]