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August 2026 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

Another hectic month has come and gone, will less time for reading than I would have liked. But what I read was pretty good.

Acquisitions

  1. Ibtisam Azem (Sinan Antoon, translator), The Sleep Thief (And Other Stories) [2026.08.18]
  2. Karishma Jobanputra, The Body of the Thing (And Other Stories) [2026.08.18]
  3. Shawn Speakman (editor), Unavowed: New Tales by Masters of Fantasy (Grim Oak Press) [2026.08.18]

Reading List

Books

  1. Colleen Alles, Luminescence in Season [2026.08.05]
  2. Derek Künsken, The Quantum Magician [2026.08.16]
  3. Natasha Stagg, Grand Rapids [2026.08.20]
  4. Yuri Herrera, Season of the Swamp [2026.08.27]

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]

 

November 2024 Books and Reading Notes

John Winkelman

November wasn’t such a great month for reading, mostly due to the existential dread of watching democracy die in the USA. Other than that, things are great!

Acquisitions

  1. Jordan S. Carroll, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (University of Minnesota Press) [2024.11.01]
  2. Kateřina Čupová (Julie Nováková, translator, Damian Duffy, lettering), R.U.R: The Karel Čapek Classic (Rosarium Publishing) [2024.11.07]
  3. Yuri Herrera (Lisa Dillman, translator), Season of the Swamp (And Other Stories) [2024.11.12]
  4. Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 (Four Walls Eight Windows) [2024.11.14]
  5. Cheryl S. Ntumy, Songs for the Shadows (Atthis Arts) [2024.11.30]
  6. Ihor Mysiak (Yevheniia Dubrova and Hanna Leliv, translators), The Factory (Atthis Arts) [2024.11.30]

Reading List

Books

  1. Elvira Navarro (Christina MacSweeney, translator), A Working Woman [2024.11.12]
  2. Mona Arshi, Somebody Loves You [2024.11.21]
  3. William Gibson, Spook Country [2024.11.27]

Short Prose

  1. Jim C. Hines, “A Game of Goblins” [2024.11.25]