These are some of the books I want to read...
Zero-Sum: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Future Feeling by Joss Lake
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It by Tobias Rose-Stockwell
Excavations by Hannah Michell
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
Search History by Eugene Lim
This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us about Creativity by Richard Deming
The Heartbreak Years: A Memoir by Minda Honey
The Upstate by Lindsay Turner
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
Rogue by Mona Awad
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
The Guild of Saint Cooper by Shya Scanlon
I Didn’t See It Coming by William E. Jones
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood by Erin Carlson
Nox by Anne Carson
A Starlet’s Secret to a Sensational Afterlife by Kendall Kulper
A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir by Emily Wells
Shy by Max Porter
Abortion: A Personal Story, A Political Choice by Pauline Harmange
What’s Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety by Cole Kazdin
The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (10th Anniversary Edition) by Dani Shapiro
Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns
Up with the Sun by Thomas Mallon
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Arline T. Geronimus
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O’Donnell Heffington
Exalted by Anna Dorn
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery
Lessons from an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life by Mark Matousek
A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters by Steven C. Hayes
literally show me a healthy person by Darcie Wilder
The Novelist by Jordan Castro
I hope everyone had a happy holiday season. I posted some pictures of me with my nephews from Thanksgiving Day (11/23/2023) here.
Looking forward to the long weekend!
P.S. I definitely recommend this essay which you can read here. It was published in 2019, but for some reason, I didn't come across it until sometime in 2023. After reading it, I made a note that it is a must-read.
