Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Trying to slim down the stack of books at my bedside
(✨ = read)

Books I mention:
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (trans. Giovanni Pontiero) (1977) ✨
Les Années (The Years) by Annie Ernaux (2008)
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrea (trans. Lisa Dillman) (2015) ✨
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (ed. Elizabeth Alexander) (2005) ✨
Passion by June Jordan (1980)
Kindred by Octavia Butler (1979) ✨

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake (2020) ✨
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles (2019) ✨
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984) ✨
Slow Days, Fast Company. The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz (1977) ✨
Artful by Ali Smith (2012) ✨
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft (1796) ✨
The Sitwells: A Family's Biography by John Pearson (1980)
The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 by Edith Schloss (2021)

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