Your hold is ready! (6. 27. 2021)

Happy summer, everyone! It’s been great to have more time to focus on my own writing and reading outside the several-books-a-week schedule PhDing had me in. I hope you’re as excited to read and listen for fun as I am.

Okay, now to the recommendations!

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Nino Cipri, Finna.

• Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter.

• Melissa Broder, Milk Fed.

• Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.

Podcasts:

• Radio Rental

• Data & Society

Albums:

• Hospital Bracelet, South Loop Summer (2021).

• Never Shout Never, Time Travel (2011). (I know! But trust me, it’s good!)

• CAPSULE, SUGARLESS GiRL (2007).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Michael Aurelio, The first thing written in two years (2021).

• Aimee Nezhukumatathil, The Body (2016).

• Willow Defebaugh, Phototropism (2021)

• B. Domino, A Fist of Weeds (2021).

• Chrys Tobey, Some Kind of Palace (2021).

• Shannon C. Ward, The Last Vacation (2021).

• Catherine Lacey, Congratulations on Your Loss (2021).

• Marisa Lainson, When You Kiss Me Your Hands Smell Like Bleach (2021).

Comics & Art:

• Dave Lapp, If You Love Something (2021).

• Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, Selections from Her Read (2021)

Essays and Articles:

• Sophie Haigney, Fiction Detective (2021)

• E. Alex Jung, In Conversation: Alison Bechdel (2021)

• Alejandro Zambra, What Will My Son Remember of this Horrible Year? (2021)

• Kenny Ng, Used 2 Love U (2021).

My Recent Work:

• Chapbooks! Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In (link is to my PayPal –– pay what you can, $3-6 recommended, and include your email for a PDF copy. Yes, you are “friends and family.”) And add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• Making a madwoman in Lavender Review.

• affective turn and Mealtime Scene in Hooligan Magazine.

• Butch flight in you are here: the journal of creative geography.

• THIS IS NOT A MEAL. in New Delta Review.

• Narrow Flights in Superstition Review.

• DIRECTOR’S CUT in Lammergeier Magazine.

• “Downtown: Night falls,” in Kissing Dynamite.

• Four Poems in Heavy Feather Review.

• Two Poems in Electric Literature’s “The Commuter.”

• Read WRITING OURSELVES / MAD folio, part 2, at ANMLY Lit.

That’s all for now –– again, feel free to let me know what you think, what you’d like to see more of, and if you have any recommendations of your own!