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reading list, 2022
Reading
The Three Mothers (Tubbs)
Best American Short Stories 2021
Have Read
Sea of Tranquility (Mandel)
The Pages (Hamilton)
Tell Me an Ending (Harkin)
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern: Plunder
The Invisible Kingdom (O’Rourke)
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water (Alkins)
Tears We Cannot Stop (Dyson)
To Paradise (Yanagihara)
Black Smoke (Miller)
To Read
Sexual Justice (Brodsky)
An Unquiet Mind (Jamison)
Horizontal Vertigo (Villoro)
Popisho (Ross)
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free (Rakoff)
Kitchen Confidential (Bourdain)
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Enriquez)
Plunder (Kaiser)
My Heart (Mehmedinovic)
Square Haunting (Wade)
Do Not Disturb (Wrong)
The Shapeless Unease (Harvey)
Radiant Fugitives (Ahmed)
Virtue (Hoby)
Geniuses at War (Price)
Afterparties (Veasna)
Everything is Fine (Granata)
Aviary (McNamer)
Pizza Girl (Frazier)
Little Eyes (Schweblin)
Brothers on Three (Streep)
An Ordinary Wonder (Papillon)
In the Wild Light (Zentner)
Unforgetting (Lovato)
The Family Roe (Prager)
(last update: 21 June 2022)
bertram brooker’s “sounds assembling”
winnipeg art gallery, february 2019
a few favorites from over the years…
2021
I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound (Doughty)
The Sum of Us (McGhee)
Black Man in a White Coat (Tweedy)
The Promise (Galgut)
Rememberings (O’Connor)
Things We Lost to the Water (Nguyen)
How Much of These Hills is Gold (Zhang)
Horror Stories (Phair)
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev (Walton)
I Came as a Shadow (Thompson)
2020
Trick Mirror (Tolentino)
Politics is for Power (Hersh)
2019
The Cooking Gene (Twitty)
Tenth of December (Saunders)
Heavy (Laymon)
2018
The King is Always Above the People (Alarcón)
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears (Mengestu)
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Thien)
Flying Lessons and Other Stories (Oh)
2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kidder)
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching (Smith)
2016
A Strangeness in My Mind (Pamuk)
The Warmth of Other Suns (Wilkerson)
The Tsar of Love and Techno (Marra)
Americanah (Adichie)
Earlier
Snow (Pamuk)
The Fire Next Time (Baldwin)
So You Wanna be a Rock & Roll Star (Slichter)
Best American Sports Writing 2008
Not Dead and Not for Sale (Weiland)
Joseph Anton (Rushdie)