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august books 🏊‍♂️
59. Acid Green Velvet by Grace Krilanovich (Two Dollar Radio)
60. Self-Romancing by L Scully (Dopamine)
61. The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker by Jack Skelley (semiotext(e))
62. The Fastening by Julie Doxsee (Black Ocean)
63. Sick of Being Inside Myself by Alexandra Naughton (House of Vlad)
64. Pitch Dark by Renata Adler (New York Review Books)
65. The Book of Marys and Glaciers by Carrie Olivia Adams (Tupelo Press)
66. Unpublishable ed. by Chris Molnar, Etan Nechin (Archway Editions)
67. How Golf Can Save Your Life by Drew Millard (Abrams)
68. The Royal We by Roddy Bottum (Akashic Books)
69. A Question of Belonging by Hebe Uhart (Archipelago Books)

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Each chapter of A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING features interviews with brilliant writers, teachers, and students. Chapter One: The Narrative of Your Course includes "Claire Donato on the Art of the Syllabus."

Claire Donato is Assistant Chairperson at Pratt Institute, where she received the 2020-2021 Distinguished Teacher Award. She is the author of three books, most recently Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts (Archway Editions, 2023). She's also a candidate in psychoanalysis at the Contemporary Freudian Society in NYC.

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Sunday AM Reading #christophercoe #archwayeditions

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may books 🍸👟
35. Coeur de Lion by Ariana Reines (Fence)
36. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth)
37. Godlike by Richard Hell (New York Review Books)
38. Superstars by Ann Scott; trans. by Jonathan Woollen (Astra House)
39. Moony Days of Being by Nathan Hoks (Black Ocean)
40. Too L.A. by Eve Babitz; ed. by Lili Anolik (New York Review Books)
41. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford (Vintage)
42. Plat by Lindsey Webb (Archway Editions)
43. Dead Boys in Space by Sara Youngblood Gregroy (YesYes Books)

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Such Times by Christopher Coe is a time capsule, transporting us back to major cities from the 1970s-1990s — before and during the AIDS crisis. Narrated by Timothy, a gay man who has spent all of his adult life in an affair with the older, partnered Jasper, Such Times tackles both complicated love and the devastation HIV/AIDS wreaked on gay men for years.

This story is laced with loss. The loss of freedom, love, safety, and futures. The vibrancy of urban life before the disease contrasts starkly with the terror and grief that followed, making the change feel almost tangible to the reader. Despite the heaviness and honesty about the impacts of the disease, there is nothing helpless about how the situation is presented. Coe’s narrator refuses to be cowed by the enormity and mystery of the virus, he seeks information and holds onto every sliver of hope available. He posits honesty in the face of shame as important to the eventual treatment of the disease.

Living over 40 years after the outbreak of AIDS and knowing more about the virus and that there are now excellent treatments and prophylactics make this story all the more heartbreaking. If only they had the knowledge and options we have now. As someone born in 1994, the year Coe died, I’m very much aware of how the disease quickly broke out and was initially an untreatable mystery, ignored by many powerful figures as it was seen as a gay disease. However, I didn’t live through this time so I find literature about it particularly illuminating.

This is an excellent book, initially lauded the novel of a generation and then largely forgotten for years. Coe gave voice to his community in such a beautiful, impactful way. I can’t recommend this book enough.

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april books 🌸
27. The Classroom and the Crowd by Al Filreis (Columbia University Press)
28. Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang (Dutton)
29. Grievers by adrienne maree brown (AK Press)
30. All the Cameras In My Room by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
31. with snow pouring southward past the window by Joan Naviyuk Kane (University of Pittsburgh Press)
32. Rapid Transit by Alexandra Naughton (Nomadic Press)
33. Buffalo Free Rapid Transit by Joe Hall (Black Ocean)
34. Runes and Chords by Alice Notley (Archway Editions)
also, @joe_hall_joe_hall & i are reading together at @mollysbooksandrecords this saturday in philly, alongside other @blackoceanpublishing writers. do attend!

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"Some future spring, under the window in the house we’d spend our last five years in living together, she’d collect bits of moss each time we went out and built a bank of it where she would sit in bed and write. She could lay for hours like that, typing surrounded by books and snacks and pillows with the lights off. I never understood how she could write that way until after she was gone and I no longer had the will to sit up straight" (p. 57).

Butler, B. (2023). Molly. Archway Editions.

#memoir #mollybrodak #blakebutler

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March Reading Wrapup! I've been sick so I didn't get to do a reel for the month, and my take up on April has been very slow but I'm trying ❤️ @_isolarii_ x @archwayeditions came through with the SJÓN & Lynne Tillman ❤️

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storyfort 2026: a woman named Juno holding knife describes a haunted prison across the street, catsitting in Oslo, William Gass’ The Tunnel (and surprising Midwest associations like the breath of a horse), the aura of Gordon Lish, a man berating me for expressing my joy for the Wuthering Heights soundtrack, The Lemonheads, crowd moping, detailed dreams, LIBRARY!, assault rifle reveal, summer camp bafflement, on your knees proposal, The Boys of Boise, orange cowboy boots, @sugarcainberman behind bars at the coffee shop, Logan’s laughter, Caroline’s cheerleading, kicked in the face, roadtrip act 3, John Gregory Dunne’s influence, Anika’s genius, the greatest live band ever: the jesus lizard, misunderstanding, embarrassing entries in the notes app, bitterness and resentment, double mastectomy, Monticello, boring road trip w/ Michel Houellebecq, leaving tour and entering “normal” life like a war vet, knowing your limitations, old bands revived from prime days at warped tour, a teaching banning the words “thigh” and “restaurant,” and the last night thinking about a cool cabin on a bunk bed, forgotten dreams, and the flight home.

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“There are no secrets but you’ve blocked a lot of yourself. Nothing’s hidden from you you hid it. Hating people is useless. Always best to do nothing. Like, don’t buy it, don’t eat it, don’t say it. Unfortunately I keep leaving messages everywhere. In case I read them. Don’t think it. Don’t even love it. A dark bondage. Called RUNE.” Alice Notley, Runes and Chords (Archway Editions, 2023).

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Sharing at the heart of the collection, prologue of sorts to the long suite ‘Famous Hermits’, Szymaszek asserts a sense of wonder, critical and with humor, seemingly effortless but ultimately necessary. Now, need to reread Parra.

#famoushermits #stacyszymaszek #archwayeditions #nicanorparra #antipoetry

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Sjón / Under the Wings of the Valkyrie/ @_isolarii_
@allegragoodmanwriter / Isola / @thedialpress
Tillman x Lewandowski / The Mystery of Perception / @archwayeditions
@olivialanguage / The Lonely City / @picador
@tokarczuk_olga / Primeval and Other Times / @twisted_spoon_press

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