What’s On My Nightstand: December 2018

Nonfiction/Memoir

Some Bright Morning I’ll Fly Away, by Alice Anderson

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics, by Starhawk

Fiction

Blood and Guts in High School, by Kathy Acker

The Answers: A Novel, by Catherine Lacey

Short Fiction

“Surplus Male,” by Caitlin Bagwell, NUNUM

“Acceptance Journey,” by Mary Gaitskill

“Staring at His Converse Tennis Shoes,” by Anne Gudger, 50-Word Stories

“Two Sisters,” by Ludmilla Petrushkevskaya

“Time for the Eyes to Adjust,” by Lin Ullman

Young Adult Fiction

The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas

Poetry

“Prognosis,” by Meena Alexander

“Arrival at Santos,” by Elizabeth Bishop

“Dinah,” by Sarah Blake

“Saturday,” by Caryl Pagel

“The Sagittarius” and “A Song of Monsoon and Blood Lava,” by Pamela K. Santos

Journal

The Paris Review, No. 227, Winter 2018

Ploughshares Fall 2018

Essay / Interview / OpEd

“Roxane Gay: ‘Public Discourse Rarely Allows for Nuance. And see where that’s gotten us,” by Aida Edemarium, The Guardian

“The Thread: Outside the Gaze,” by Marissa Korbel, The Rumpus

“I Used to Give Men Mercy,” by Therese Mailhot, Guernica

“Why You Should Be One Too?” by Spencer Reed, Granta

Catalogue

Mt. Airy Learning Tree Winter 2019 Course Catalogue

Magazine / Newspaper

Lesbian Connection: free to lesbians worldwide, but the suggested donation is $7/issue (more if you can, less if you can’t), January/February 2019 issue

The New Yorker

The Week

Random

author photo (below), photograph and styling by Gracie, age 5

HURRAW! lipbalm

pomegranate majolica dish

hummingbird Xmas ornament, made by Nicolle

ginger cookies, made by Echo Bodine)

Smith’s Rosebud Salve

lavender bath salts, made by Charlotte

Leigh_by Gracie_Xmas2018
author photo, photograph and styling by Gracie, age 5

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2 Replies to “What’s On My Nightstand: December 2018”

  1. Love the photo Leigh. You look like a lovely Christmas ornament. Thank you for your blog. Hope to see you soon.
    Marilyn Wood

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