Nonfiction
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, by Pam Houston
The Way of Chuang Tzu, by Thomas Merton
Era of Ignition, by Amber Tamblyn
From Dictatorship to Democracy, Gene Sharp
The Methods of Nonviolent Action, by Gene Sharp
Occasional Magic – The Moth (True Stories About Defying the Impossible)
Fiction
The Queen of the Night, by Alexander Chee
Before She Was Harriet, by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Short Fiction
‘The Office of Missing Persons’ by Akil Kumaraswamy (Lit Hub)
‘The Frog King,’ by Garth Greenwell (The New Yorker)
‘Motherland,’ by Min Jin Lee (The Missouri Review)
Poetry
Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems: 1927 – 1979
Enough Music, by Dorianne Laux
Goodbye to Tolerance, by Denise Levertov
Essay / Interview / OpEd (Selected)
The Phenom: ‘Change Is Closer Than We Think.’ Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Unlikely Rise,’ by Charlotte Alter
8 Short Kids’ Films Every Mini-Feminist Should See, by Emma Davey
Thesomorphia, by Melissa Febos
The Thread: Down Girl (The Rumpus) by Marissa Korbel
Against Catharsis: Writing is Not Therapy, by T Kira Madden
Voices of Addiction: All the Ways to Save Your Life,(The Rumpus) by David M. Olsen
Patti Smith discusses activism in the age of Trump: ‘I’m not going down with the ship, that’s for certain’ by Randall Roberts
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
TIME
SIERRA Magazine
Random
booda butter – naked lip balm
El Sueño Americano (The American Dream) – exhibition card, Tom Kiefer
abalone shell, palo santo wood, dried rose buds
Chill Pill – Aura Cacia Essential Oil Blend
necklace (shells, leather suede), Little Green Apple Jewelry
beach stones
Mexican tile (coaster)
LEIGH HOPKINS 