March Reading

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So I made it a public goal to read twenty books during the month of March, and I did it! I facetiously riffed off National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) by calling it NaNoReMo. Here’s a list for those curious about what I read. It’s mostly stuff I picked up this year at AWP. It’s rather eclectic, honestly. I think my goal for future reading is to choose an author and read seven or eight works by them (frontrunners: Don DeLillo or Michael Ondaatje or Ngugi wa Thiong’o). This list has 11 fiction titles, 6 nonfiction titles and 3 literary journals.

  1. MFA vs NYC by Chad Harbach
  2. The Blue Fox by Sjon
  3. Fight for your Long Day by Alex Kudera
  4. Send Me Work by Katherine Karlin
  5. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory by Randall Balmer
  6. Tin House Writers on Writing
  7. Three Scenarios Where Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Kelly Luce
  8. Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
  9. Speedboat by Renata Adler
  10. Nazareth, North Dakota by Tommy Zurhellen
  11. The Odditorium by Melissa Pritchard
  12. Vox by Nicholson Baker
  13. The Fun Stuff by James Wood
  14. Cimarron Review
  15. Image Journal
  16. How to Read a Novel by John Freeman
  17. Out Loud by Anthony Varallo
  18. Coyotes by Ted Conover
  19. Arts & Letters Journal
  20. Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick

Of all of those, I would especially recommend The Blue FoxThree Scenarios Where Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, and The Odditorium. But many others were excellent. Happy reading!

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