Books I Read
2023
Debt, David Graeber
Animorphs: The Stranger (#7), K.A. Applegate
Focusing, Eugene Gendlin
Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
DBT Training Manual, Marsha Linehan
Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
Abracadabracrysanthamum, Richard Wehrenberg
Gestures, Artis Ostups
Fight Night, Miriam Toews
I Remember, Joe Brainard
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, Anne Boyer
A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud
All in All, Jeff Wright
Eleutheria, Allegra Hyde
The Global Transformation of Time, Vanessa Ogle
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb
Modern Love, Constance De Jong
The Unsayable, Annie Rogers
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein
De Colores Means All of Us, Elizabeth Martinez
El Libro De Las Preguntas, Pablo Neruda
Rest is Resistance, Tricia Hersey
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
Megamorphs #1: The Andalite’s Gift, K.A. Applegate
Grave of Light, Alice Notley
Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle
IRL, Tommy Pico
Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman
American Cult, Robyn Chapman
Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin
Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders, James Chu
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
We Want it All, An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
Animorphs: The Alien (#8), K.A. Applegate
The Art of Communicating, Thich Nhat Hanh
Animorphs: The Secret (#9), K.A. Applegate
Codependent No More, Melody Beattie
The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
Queering Your Therapy Practice, Julie Tilsen
Ducks, Katie Beaton
All About Love, Bell Hooks
Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer
Animorphs: The Android (#10), K.A. Applegate
Blood in My Eye, George L. Jackson
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
Retelling the Stories of Our Lives, David Denborough
The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan
Alive at the End of the World, Saeed Jones
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
Maps of Narrative Practice, Michael White
Magical Negro, Morgan Parker
Passport, Sophia Glock
Dopesick, Beth Macy
The Anxiety Toolkit, Alice Boyes
Life On Delay, John Hendrickson
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, Zoe Thorogood
Photography and Belief, David Levi Strauss
The Extended Mind, Annie Murphy Paul
How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell
Animorphs: The Forgotten (#11), K.A. Applegate
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Animorphs: The Reaction (#12), K.A. Applegate
The Breast, Phillip Roth
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories, Robert Louis Stevenson
All the Living and the Dead, Hayley Campbell
Healing Fictions, James Hillman
Articles et al:
Land Ownership Makes No Sense, Jehan Azad
How Much Discomfort is the Whole World Worth, Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
We're Sedating Women with Self-Care: How we became obsessed with wellness, Katherine Rowland
Gifts, Rishad Tobaccowala
6 Celebrities Who Are 9/11 Truthers Just Like Marion Cotillard
2022
Purgatorio, Dante
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Tarot for Change, Jessica Dore
Mercury, Ariana Reines
A Better Word for the World, Daniel Bailey
The Flick, Annie Baker
Family Therapy, Robert Taibbi
Dead Dad Club, Julian Shendelman
The World of the Ten Thousand Things, Charles Wright
Random Symmetries, Tom Andrews
The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin
Autobiography of Death, Kim Hyesoon
American Cult, Robyn Chapman
Paradiso, Dante
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, Patrick Phillips
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
Happy Days, Endgame, Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Curb, Divya Victor
Broken People, Sam Lansky
Year One, Frank Miller/David Mazzucchelli
The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale
A Western World, Michael Deforge
Killing and Dying, Adrian Tomin
A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, CA Conrad
Taking Control of Adult ADHD, Russell Barkley
This Wound is a World, Billy Ray Belcourt
The Cry of the Owl, Patricia Highsmith
The Promise, Damon Galgut
Over the Anvil We Stretch, Anis Mojgani
Typing Wild Speech, Dana Ward
Linear C, Jean Day
Lanterns at Guantánamo, Jordan Scott
To Max Douglas, Ken Irby
Insomnia and the Aunt, Tan Lin
Meat Lovers, Rebecca Hawkes
Garbage, AR Ammons
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, Alison Lubar
Void, Alina Vilnyanskaya
Dune, Frank Herbert
Work, Brandon Brown
An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison
Red Juice, Hoa Nguyen
Stories We Know: Recording the Black History of Bartram’s Garden and Southwest Philadelphia, Sharece Bankney, Aislinn Pentecost-Farren
Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong
Profit – Prophet, Patrick Blagrave
Heroine, Angelo Colavita
Cardinal, David Tyree
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, Da’Shaun L. Harrison
Mutual Aid, Dean Spade
Animorphs: The Invasion (#1), K.A Applegate
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
Animorphs: The Visitor (#2), K.A Applegate
Animorphs: The Encounter (#3), K.A Applegate
The City and the City, China Miéville
Animorphs: The Message (#4), K.A Applegate
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
Animorphs: The Predator (#5), K.A Applegate
Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up, Robert Muller
Children of Dune, Frank Herbert
This Naked Mind, Annie Grace
The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders
Ways of Seeing, John Berger
Full Metal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa
Constructing the Self, Constructing America, Phillip Cushman
Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy, Susan Pease Banitt
The Trauma Map, Dr. Karol Darsa
Articles et al.
The Optimization Sinkhole, Anne Helen Petersen
The Tyranny of Time, Joe Zadeh
Goodbye, Pixel, Julian Baggini
I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory, Virginia Heffernan
2021
The Undying, Anne Boyer
Lady of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
The Cipher, Molly Brodak
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
That Ex, Rachelle Toarmino
Not I, Sebastian Castillo
Sea and Fog, Etnel Adnan
Pretty Little Dirty, Amanda Boyden
A Fortune for Your Disaster, Hanif Abdurraqib
Magenta Soul Whip, Lisa Robertson
Bad Bad, Chelsea Minnis
Near to the Wild Heart, Clarice Lispector
Your Name Here, John Ashbery
Minor Characters, Joyce Johnson
Bushwick Review #7, #8
Running on Pure Animal Instinct and Ice Water, Em Brill
Love and Fear and Glamour, Gion Davis
The Plays of Anton Chekov
Dead Souls, Sam Riviere
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Three Poems, John Ashbery
Woodcutters, Thomas Bernhard
Deepstep Come Shining, C.D. Wright
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
Troisième Vague, Lucy K. Shaw
We Die in Italy, Sarah Jean Alexander
Homie, Danez Smith
Museum of Accidents, Rachel Zucker
The Colossus, Sylvia Plath
My Private Property, Mary Ruefle
Kim Kardashian’s Marriage, Sam Riviere
Find Peace Either Way, Sophie Jennie
Isn’t This Nice, Courtney Bush
Ultra-Fine, Zack Blackwood
Canon!, Dior J. Stephens
Whereas, Layli Long Soldier
Recollections of My Life As a Woman, Diane Di Prima
Leaving Saturn, Major Jackson
After Lorca, Jack Spicer
Wade In the Water, Tracey K. Smith
Violent Energy Ingots, Hoa Nguyen
Inferno, Dante
Look, Solmaz Sharif
Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler
DMZ Colony, Don Mee Choi
The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health, Zena Sharman
Wildlives, Sarah Jean Alexander
Devil in the White City, Eric Larson
Revolutionary Letters, Diane Di Prima
Requiem for a Fruit, Rachel O’Neill
Anti-Oppressive Psychotherapy, David Archer
Articles et al.
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed, Joel Ogon, Raptitude
The Gospel of Consumption, Jeffrey Kaplan, Orion Magazine
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
The Bully Pulpit, David Graeber
Every Child on Their Own Trampoline, Jeremy Williams, Earthbound Report
In Defense of Doing Nothing, Apoorva Tadepalli, The New Republic
It’s Time for Reparations, Nikole Hannah-Jones, NY Magazine
What the Meat Paradox Reveals About Moral Decision Making, Julia Shaw, BBC
The Sad, Beautiful Fact that We’re All Going to Miss Almost Everything, Linda Holmes
De-Growth and MMT: A Thought Experiment, Jason Hickel
Why Time Management is Ruining Our Lives, Oliver Burkeman, Pocket
Co-Buying Property with Friends, Supernuclear
Chatbots at the End of the World, The Baffler
The Twilight of the Ethical Consumer, Elizabeth Kline, Atmos
An Engineering Argument for Basic Income, Scott Santens
How Four Years of Trump Re-Shaped Food and Farming, Lisa Held, Civil Eats
Is This Real Life? Julian Lehr
The Fierce Triumph of Loneliness, Helena Fitzgerald
The Time Trap of Productivity, Lawrence Yeo
Busyness Decoded: How to Limit What You Say Yes To, Tara McMullin
Beth Tabler, Hopebunk, Optimism, Purity, and Futures of Hard Work, Ada Palmer
How Blink 182’s Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O Researcher, Derrick Bryson Taylor
Otto Rank, The Artist’s Fight With Art, mentholmountains
Compiling all human knowledge (?)
This Sea Shanty Round on Reddit
Hieronymus Bosch’s “500 Year Old Butt Song From Hell”
Planetary Boundaries environmental model
Ugandan Oxfam Director Winnie Byanyima’s Epic Takedown of Yahoo CFO
White Rage talk by Carol Anderson