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THE CITY OF THIS LADY: A BOOK BLOG

July 23, 2015July 24, 2015Alison Kinney
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← Herman Melville. Moby-Dick
Homer. Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles →

Reviews by Author

Next Up/Currently Reading

Kiese Laymon: Heavy
Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Minal Hajratwala: Leaving India
Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties
In the Wake: Christina Sharpe
Luis Jaramillo, The Doctor’s Wife
Rabih Alameddine: An Unnecessary Woman
Patricia A. Matthew: Written/Unwritten
Julayne Lee: Not My White Savior
Shaun Scott: Millennials and the Moments That Made Us
Helen DeWitt: Some Trick
Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer
Marcel Proust: Du côté de chez Swann (rereading but this time en français)
Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns
Lisa Ko: The Leavers
Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Karl Jacoby: The Strange Career of William Ellis
Simeon Marsalis: As Lie Is to Grin
Danielle Pafunda: The Dead Girls Speak in Unison
Anna Leahy: Tumor
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Lately, for teaching, I’ve been concentrating on individual essays and stories. They’re harder to track here, so I’m not actively blogging/reviewing.

Most Recently Read

Wendy S. Walters: Multiply/Divide
Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People
Jesmyn Ward: Salvage the Bones
Terese Marie Mailhot: Heart Berries
Aisha Sabatini Sloan: Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit
Leslie Jamison: The Empathy Exams
Kevin Vennemann: Close to Jedenew
Gregory Pardlo: Air Traffic
Tommy Pico: Nature Poem
Roxane Gay: Hunger
Ann Patchett: Commonwealth
Giuseppe di Lampedusa: The Leopard
Wendy C. Ortiz: Hollywood Notebook
Kaitlyn Greenidge: We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Rafia Zakaria: Veil
Danielle Pafunda: Manhater
Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong
Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
Wayne Koestenbaum: The Queen’s Throat
Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
Helen Phillips: The Beautiful Bureaucrat
Alexander Chee: Edinburgh
Hillary Mantel: Wolf Hall
Renee Fleming: The Inner Voice
Alice Munro: Runaway
Ariana Kelly: Phone Booth
David Rakoff: Fraud
Brian Thill: Waste
Lydia Davis: can’t and won’t
Alexander Chee: The Queen of the Night
Helen Phillips: And Yet They Were Happy
Alice Oswald: Memorial
Jenny Offill: Dept. of Speculation
Amitav Ghosh: The Calcutta Chromosome
Martin K. Foys, Karen Eileen Overbey, Dan Terkla, eds: The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations
Moustafa Bayoumi: How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?
Rabih Alameddine: The Hakawati
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah
Julian Barnes: Cross Channel (reread)
Helen Oyeyemi: Boy, Snow, Bird
Colson Whitehead: The Intuitionist
W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz (reread)
Colin Dickey: Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
Claudia Rankine: Citizen
Philip Gourevitch & Errol Morris: Standard Operating Procedure
Richard L. Kagan & Abigail Dyer: Inquisitorial Inquiries
Julie Buckner Armstrong: Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
Pieter Spierenburg: The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the evolution of repression
Ivan Solotaroff: The Last Face You’ll Ever See
Louis P. Masur: Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865
Romanic Review: Examining Heretical Thought
Robert Mills: Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (reread)
Helen Prejean: Dead Man Walking (reread)
Robert Johnson: Death Work: A Study of the Modern Execution Process
Michel Foucault: Discipline & Punish
Dominic Pettman: In Divisible Cities
Colum McCann: Let the Great World Spin
Shirley Hazzard: People in Glass Houses
James McCourt: Mawrdew Czgowchwz
Helen DeWitt: The Last Samurai
Zadie Smith: On Beauty
Tram Nguyen: We Are All Suspects Here
Mavis Gallant: Overhead in a Balloon
Penelope Fitzgerald: The Beginning of Spring

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