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September 2026 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

September was a good month both for reading and acquisitions. The acquisitions were helped by three events – a book launch for two new titles from the Grand River Poetry Collective, the 2026 Kultura Celebration put on by the Kultura Education Center, and the grand re-opening of local indie bookstore Books and Mortar.

The first three books in the reading list are books I read while returning from Orlando, Florida to home. Stormy weather in Orlando caused a delay in the first leg of my flight, so I missed my connection in Charlotte and spent the night in the airport, where there was nothing to do except read.

Acquisitions

Books acquired in September 2026.
Books acquired in September 2026.
  1. Lamont Arrington, The My Heart Blues: Love and Blues Poems (Grand River Poetry Press) [2026.09.10] – Purchased from the publisher at the launch event for this book.
  2. GF Korreck, The Pope’s Astronomer (Grand River Poetry Press) [2026.09.10] – Purchased from the publisher at the launch event for this book.
  3. Nellie DeVries, Japanese Garden: Four Seasons of Poems (Wipf and Stock Publishers) [2026.09.10] – Purchased at the Grand River Poetry Press book launch event.
  4. William “Endlesswill” Davis, Jr., Searching for the Write Words: A Haiku and Word Search Experience [2026.09.12] – Purchased from the author at the 2026 Kultura celebration.
  5. William “Endlesswill” Davis, Jr., Lost Poems [2026.09.12] – Purchased from the author at the 2026 Kultura celebration.
  6. William “Endlesswill” Davis, Jr., QWERTY: A Vintage Typewriter Coloring Book [2026.09.12] – Purchased from the author at the 2026 Kultura celebration.
  7. R. F. Kuang, Taipei Story [2026.09.19] – Purchased from Books & Mortar at their grand re-opening celebration.
  8. Salvage #16 [2026.09.24]
  9. Louise Glück, Poems 1962 – 2012 [2026.09.24] – Purchased from Schuler Books.
  10. Diane Seuss, Frank: Sonnets (Graywolf Press) [2026.09.24] – Purchased from Schuler Books.
  11. China Miéville, The Rouse [2026.09.26] – Purchased from Books & Mortar.

Reading List

Books

Books read in September 2026.
Books read in September 2026.
  1. Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times [2026.09.05]
  2. John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society [2026.09.05]
  3. John Scalzi, Starter Villain [2026.09.07]
  4. Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems [2026.09.22]
  5. William “Endlesswill” Davis, Jr., Searching for the Write Words [2026.09.23]
  6. Nellie DeVries, Japanese Garden: Four Seasons of Poems [2026.09.23]
  7. Umberto Eco, How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays [2026.09.24]
  8. Lamont Arrington, The My Heart Blues: Love and Blues Poems [2026.09.30]

Short Prose

  1. Kameron Hurley, “Hungry Like the Boar” [2026.09.07]
  2. Kameron Hurley, “The Tintabulation” [2026.09.07]

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]