Summer was frustrating and hellish so I indulged in a little retail therapy. Poetry and philosophy help me settle my nerves.
Acquisitions
- Salvage #15 [2025.09.07]
- Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland [2025.09.07] – Purchased from Books & Mortar.
- Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (Verso Books) [2025.09.20] – Purchased from Black Dog Books and Records.
- Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan (editors), Autotheories (MIT Press) [2025.09.26] – Purchased on a whim.
- Camille Newsom, Purgatory Junkie (Main Street Rag Enterprises) [2025.09.26] – Purchased from the author.
- Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (Critical Editions) [2025.09.27] – Purchased on a whim.
- Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil [2025.09.29] – Purchased after watching Hannah Arendt.
- Mmeory (Air and Nothingness Press) [2025.09.29] – Reward from a recent Kickstarter campaign
Reading
Books
- Jim Harrison, Returning to Earth (re-read) [2025.09.14]
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Notes on the Assemblage [2025.09.18]
- Yuri Herrera (Lisa Dillman, translator), Season of the Swamp [2025.09.26]
- Camille Newsom, Purgatory Junkie [2025.09.28]
Short Prose
- Kameron Hurley, “Traveling Light, In Love” [2025.09.07]
- Jim C. Hines, “No Such Thing as a Free Twinkie” [2025.09.21]
