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July 23, 2015July 24, 2015Alison Kinney

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Ursula Hegi: Stones From the River
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In the past year, I've read barely any whole books. I've been reading fragments, and a ton of articles, essays, and stories. They're harder to track here, but it's been a lot of fun!

Most Recently Read

Danielle Pafunda: Manhater
Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong
Joel Whitney: Finks
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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