So far, in 2022…
Currently Reading:
The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Gini Alhadeff
Carnival Bound by Kara Dorris & Gwendolyn Paradice
Recently Finished:
Plans for Sentences by Renee Gladman [listen to an interview with the author here]
Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing [watch an interview with the author here]
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka * [read an interview with the author here]
Gods of Want: Stories by K-Ming Chang * [watch an interview with the author here]
Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit * [watch an interview with the author here]
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi * [read an interview with the author here and watch an interview with the author here]
Nevada by Imogen Binnie [read an interview with the author here and watch an interview with the author here]
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi *
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon * [ read an interview with the author here]
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso * [read an interview with the author here]
Read Dangerously by Azar Nafisi * [watch an interview with the author here]
Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde * [read an interview with the author here]
We Have Always Been Here * by Samra Habib [listen to an interview with the author here]
Body Work * by Melissa Febos [read an interview with the author here]
In the Lateness of the World * by Carolyn Forché [read an interview with the author here]
Build Your House Around My Body * by Violet Kupersmith [read an interview here on Bust and watch an interview here from Green Apple Books]
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade * [read an interview with the author here at Chicago Review of Books and here at The Millions]
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi * [watch an interview with the author here]
Moldy Strawberries: Stories by Caio Fernando Abreu, trans. by Bruna Dantas Lobato [check out this essay/literary playlist by the translator here]
Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu * [watch an interview with the author here]
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy [read an interview with the author here]
Feeld by Jos Charles [read an interview with the author here]
Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing [read an interview with the author here and here]
Brood by Jackie Polzin * [read an interview with the author here]
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi * (read an interview with the author here)
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy * [read an interview with the author here]
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura* [watch an interview with the author here]
Fight Night by Miriam Toews * [listen to an interview with the author here]
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien *
Sheep Machine: (00:01) by Vi Khi Nao [read an interview with the author here]
Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) by various authors
The Overstory by Richard Powers * [read an interview with the author here]
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles [read an interview with the author here]
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Abattoir by Angelo Mao
Winter by Ali Smith * [listen to an interview with the author here]
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu * [read an interview with the author here]
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke [ read an interview with the author here]
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson * [listen to an interview with the author here on Cultivating Place and read an interview here at Hazlitt]
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw * [read and watch an interview with the author here on The Rumpus and here at The Writer’s Center]
Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad * [read an interview with the author here]
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune * [read an interview with the author here]
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx [listen to an interview with the author here]
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin, trans. by Aneesa Abbas Higgins [listen to an interview with the author and translator here]
* a star means that I also enjoyed the audiobook version, and you might, too! Did you know you can borrow audiobooks from your library system through the Libby app?
