- We asked poets what fiction they're reading as of July 2020. Here are their reads:
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Martina Reisz Newberry: The Hope Project by David Fite
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Caridad Moro; A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline and All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
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Jesse Delong: We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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Don Rosenthal; It’s not fiction. It’s Kazan on Directing
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Zack Rogow; The Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Yvonne Zipter: Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon Joseph Fasano: Collected Stories of Lydia Davis Mary Jane White: All of Tony Hillerman's SW Navajo policeman mysteries, and James Anderson's The Never-Open Desert Diner Victor B. Johnson, Sr.: Stephen King The Stand Lynn Viti: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, by Elena Ferrante |
Yashar Seyedbagheri: later, at the bar, by Rebecca Barry
Patricia Whiting: The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller. Marjorie Maddox Hafer: Just finished Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. |
Cindy Veach:
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Hilary Sideris: Cinque Romanzi Brevi, Five Novellas by Natalia Ginzburg
Jennifer Martelli:
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Susan R. Williamson; The draft of my brother’s latest novel, Tipping Point.
Virgil Suarez: There, There by Tommy Orange Ronda Broatch The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris. Michael Hettich; Haven't been reading much fiction lately. Reading Simic's essays and Gretel Ehrlich's essays, as well as Dan Beachy-Quick's OF SILENCE AND SONG. Alexis Rhone Fancher : I’m not. Reading copious amounts of poetry. Diaz, Kaminsky, Laux, Bass, and countless others. And trying to stay current with The New Yorker and The Sun. Not enough hours in the day. |
Alan Catlin: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller****Linda Pastan: A Short Move, by Katherine Hill****Arturo Desimone: Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
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Paul Hostovsky: The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey
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Peter J. Cooley:The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty. It's wonderful.
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Elisa Albo: The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle
Elizabeth Jacobson: I am reading Terry Tempest Williams's Erosion (non-fiction) |
Hilda Raz: Truth: the final volume of Remembrance of Things Past, The Past Recaptured
Deborah Denicola: Yesterday’s Weather short stories by Anne Enright. |
Gregg Shapiro: An ARC of Shelter in Place by David Leavitt which is due out in October. The second is The Orange Spong And Storytelling at the Vamp-Art Cafe, the new novel by St. Sukie de la Croix.
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Julia Wendell
The Good Lord Bird Robert Cooperman The Black Dove, by Steve Hockensmith Al Maginnes What It Was by George Pelecanos. I'm reading more nonfiction. |
Stacie Kiner: The Mars Room, by, Rachel Kushner
Clarice Hare: Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov Ken Anderson: Recently, I read Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year Judy Ireland: I don’t read much fiction (mostly poetry and nonfiction) but I just started a novel called STONER, published in 1965, by author John Williams. |
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John L. Stanizzi: I just finished Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough, and I'm about half-way through Overstory by Richard Powers.
Jennifer Litt: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel |
Holly Iglesias: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates and A World to Win by Jack Conroy. |
Tony Gloeggler
Florida by Lauren Groff & What Drives Men by Susan Tepper
Florida by Lauren Groff & What Drives Men by Susan Tepper
Zoraida Pastor: Heirlooms by Rachel Hall
Peter Vertacnik: I'm re-reading Marilynne Robinson's Gilead****Kathleen Hellen: Camus' The Plague****John Baliban: Gregor Von Rezzori's An Ermine in Czernopol
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Susan Thornton: Internment by Samira Ahmed
Ken Holland: A Storm Blew in from Paradise by Johannes Anyuru Pat Zylius:Iain M. Banks's Matter |
Flose LaPierre: How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Barbra Nightingale: Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere
Ernesto Cepeda: No fiction... right now I am mesmerized reading Rebecca Solint's memoir: Recollections of my Nonexistence
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Abdulrosheed Oladipupo FASASI
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Ilhem Issaoui: David Foster Wallace's The Pale King.
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Michael Minassian: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
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