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.
- MFA vs NYC by Chad Harbach
- The Blue Fox by Sjon
- Fight for your Long Day by Alex Kudera
- Send Me Work by Katherine Karlin
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory by Randall Balmer
- Tin House Writers on Writing
- Three Scenarios Where Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Kelly Luce
- Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
- Speedboat by Renata Adler
- Nazareth, North Dakota by Tommy Zurhellen
- The Odditorium by Melissa Pritchard
- Vox by Nicholson Baker
- The Fun Stuff by James Wood
- Cimarron Review
- Image Journal
- How to Read a Novel by John Freeman
- Out Loud by Anthony Varallo
- Coyotes by Ted Conover
- Arts & Letters Journal
- Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick
Of all of those, I would especially recommend The Blue Fox, Three Scenarios Where Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, and The Odditorium. But many others were excellent. Happy reading!
