Your hold is ready! (9. 27. 22)

Hello all! It’s almost the end of September already: classes have started back up, as have my teaching and other work obligations. What a month! This quarter, I’m teaching a class on US government media/propaganda, as well as taking a fiction seminar and continuing to prepare for my qualifying exams (ah!). We’re pretty much all back in-person right now, and I have to admit, I’m loving teaching/taking classes in a classroom again. I’ve also gotten the opportunity to visit and host people after going a couple years without it, and truly, nothing compares to hugging someone you love, or curling up next to them to watch a movie. Everyone needs snuggles sometimes.

I’ve also been happily receiving feedback on my latest chapbook, bugbutter (purchase), and reading submissions for my NeMLA panel on Mad prose/poetics and narrative noncompliance, taking abstracts through 9/30. Between preparing for that, doing my own work, and dealing with everyday errands, my schedule is pretty packed, but these are the times it’s especially important to have media oases. I hope you make time in the next few weeks to escape the noise and dive into books, music, and whatever else makes you happy.

Okay, now to the recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room.

• Ursula K. LeGuin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories.

• Susan Stinson, Fat Girl Dances With Rocks.

• Wilda C. Gafney, Womanist Midrash.

• Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died.

• Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction.

• Maggie Nelson, Jane: A Murder

• Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger.

• Colson Whitehead, Zone One.

• Suzanne Gold, ALLTALK

Media:

• Star Crossed (2-player RPG)

• The Disconnect (podcast)

Albums:

• Toumani Diabaté and London Symphony Orchestra, Kôrôlén (2021).

• Habibi, Habibi (2014).

• AURORA, The Gods We Can Touch (2022).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Aditi Machado, now. (2022).

• Meg Elison, The Little God of the Staircase (2022).

• Paul Crenshaw, Dead Baby (2019).

• Thaddeus Gunn, Slapstick. (2014).

• Michelle Matz, Patient Health Questionnaire (2022).

• SJ Ghaus, Two Poems (2021).

• Jessica Lanay, Trial of the Caryatids (2019).

Essays and Articles:

• Kristine Langley Mahler, How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity (2022).

• Alexis Pauline Gumbs, It's Like This: An Interview with Doris Davenport (2013).

• Sophie Macdui, My Clit Hurts.

• Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book?.

My Recent Work:

• New book alert! My fourth chapbook, bugbutter, is available from Gap Riot Press and up on Goodreads.

• My third chapbook (2022), Out of Mind & Into Body, is available from Ethel Press and up on Goodreads.

• My 2021 chapbooks: Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In. And add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• Diagnostician's Note in Mudroom Magazine.

• a complete family / hstry in Honey Literary.

• In praise of -less: transMad shouts from absent (pl)aces in AZE Journal.

• Tomboy in Cobra Milk Magazine.

• Social Skills: A TransDyke Autie-Biography in Sinister Wisdom.

• Famous Bear Encore: Dance-Off Edition! in Augur Magazine.

• IN WHICH TIME DEMANDS ITS SHIT BACK in Woodward Review.

• UPON HEARING YOU WISH ME DECONSTRUCTED in A Velvet Giant.

• to a specified fate) in The Institutionalized Review.

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!