Monthly Archives: July 2024

Someone on goodreads wrote “to nie książka, to kołderka!” [This isn’t a book, it’s a blanket!] which is actually a great way to describe it. What a charming, winsome text. It’s the diary of a young queer Jewish guy who works at the zoo, kept from 2013-2023. The entries are brief and sporadic — it’sContinueContinue reading “Pawilon Małych Ssaków, Patryk Pufelski”

I made my bookclub read this, and I was a little worried that it would be a bit too wacky and experimental for their tastes, but I needn’t have been — they mostly wanted to ask me a ton of questions about translation theory and publishing. Which may seem like a knock on the novel,ContinueContinue reading “The Extinction of Irena Rey, Jennifer Croft”

I first read pieces of this book in college, in the Intro to Lit Theory course that I took with Bill Ray (a class that really rocked my world, both when I took it and then again, repeatedly, when I thought back on it over the years. How much I learned there! How little IContinueContinue reading “Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa”

I discovered this book in a very roundabout way — because Danica Novgorodoff, whose work I’m always on the lookout for, illustrated the graphic novel version. But when I ordered a copy, I got the actual book instead. Flipping through it, I was immediately intrigued, because it’s a novel in verse. And it’s really good!ContinueContinue reading “Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds”