May was a pretty good month for reading. I had some down time and managed to fill it with books, like I did regularly when I was much younger.
Acquisitions
- Eva Baltasar (Julia Sanches, translator), Mammoth (And Other Stories) [2024.05.07] – This is the most recent addition to my collection from my subscription to And Other Stories.
- Vanessa Angélica Villareal, Magical Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders [2024.05.18] – This was an impulse buy I made after seeing the title mentioned favorably by Jeff VanderMeer on one social media account or another.
- Zig Zag Claybourne, Breath, Warmth, & Dream (Obsidian Sky Books) [2024.05.20] – This was a Kickstarter reward from a recently-completed campaign. I met Zig Zag at ConFusion, back in, I think, 2016. He is a superb writer and overall a most excellent human being.
- Dinara Mirtalipova, Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments [2024.05.28] – This was a birthday gift from my partner. It is gorgeous!
Reading List
Books
- Ian Monk and Daniel Levin Becker (editors), All that is Evident is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963 – 2018 [2024.05.08]
- Daniel Suarez, Kill Decision (e-book, re-read) [2024.05.10]
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic [2024.05.13]
- João Gilberto Noll (Adam Morris, translator), Atlantic Hotel [2024.05.16]
- Sarah Hans, An Ideal Vessel [2024.05.18]
- César Aira, The Proof [2024.05.20]
- Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind [2024.5.28]
- Glen Cook, The Black Company (e-book, re-read) [2024.05.31]
Short Prose
- Oskar Pastior, “Rules of the Game”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.01]
- Hervé Le Tellier, “A Few Musketeers”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.02]
- Pierre Rosenstiehl, “Frieze of the Paris Métro”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.02]
- Jacques Jouet, “Poem of the Paris Métro”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.02]
- Harry Mathews, “Sainte Catherina”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.02]
- Jacques Jouet, “The Republic of Beau-Locks”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.03]
- Ian Monk, “We Did Everything”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.03]
- François Caradec, “On the End of Time”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.03]
- Paul Fournel, “Novels”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.03]
- Anne F. Garréta, “N-evol”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.04]
- Olivier Salon, “Invisible Cities: Lille”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.04]
- Jacques Roubaud, “Arrangements”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.04]
- Frédéric Forte, “99 Preparatory Notes to 99 Preparatory Notes”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.04]
- Pablo Martín Sánchez, “Metric Poetry”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.05]
- Étienne Lécroart, “Eodermdromes”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.05]
- Harry Mathews, “Narrative Sestinas”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.05]
- Étienne Lécroart, “Counting On You”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.05]
- Hervé Le Tellier, “Liquid Tales”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.05]
- Bernard Cerquiglini, “A Very Busy Year”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.05]
- Olivier Salon, “Shark Poem”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.06]
- Ross Chambers, “Brief Encounter”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.06]
- Daniel Levin Becker, “Writer’s Block”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.06]
- Jacques Roubaud, “⊂”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.06]
- Marcel Bénabou, “Our Beautiful Zeroine”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.06]
- Paul Fournel, “The Beautiful Appetite”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.06]
- Valérie Beaudouin, “Northern Line”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.07]
- Michèle Audin, “Caroline, October 21, 1935”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.07]
- E. Berti & P. Martin Sánchez, “Microfictions”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.07]
- Daniel Levin Becker, “Epithalamia”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.07]
- Frédéric Forte, “The Pitch-Drop Experiment”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.07]
- Clémentine Mélois, “Louise”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.07]
- Michèle Audin, “No One Remembers”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.08]
- Ian Monk, “Return(s)”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.08]
- Eduardo Berti, “An Ideal Presence”, All that is Evident is Suspect [2024.05.08]
- Jim C. Hines, “Daddy’s Little Girl”, Patreon [2024.05.29]
- Jim C. Hines, “Gift of the Kites”, Patreon [2024.05.29]
