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What Fiction Are You Reading?

  • 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
Caridad Moro; A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline and All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Jesse Delong: We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Don Rosenthal; It’s not fiction.  It’s Kazan on Directing
David Colodney


Ben Lerner's new book, The Topeka School
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.




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Marjorie Maddox Hafer: Just finished Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.



Cindy Veach:
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Hilary Sideris: Cinque Romanzi Brevi, Five Novellas by Natalia Ginzburg

Jennifer Martelli: 
Starting the Sealey Challenge next week

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
Vicki Iorio


The Vanishing Half
Paul Hostovsky: The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey
Peter J. Cooley:The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty. It's wonderful.
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.

Julia Wendell


The Good Lord Bird


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Robert Cooperman


The Black Dove, by Steve Hockensmith




Al Maginnes


What It Was by George Pelecanos. I'm reading more nonfiction.
Cynthia White


Trust Exercise by Susan Choi.
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. 



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









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Holly Iglesias: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates and A World to Win by Jack Conroy.

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Tony Gloeggler


Florida by Lauren Groff & What Drives Men by Susan Tepper

Zoraida Pastor: Heirlooms by Rachel Hall
Gary Kay


Next Year in Havana
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Meryl Stratford:
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton and Igor Stravinsky's Poetics of Music

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
Susan Thornton: Internment by Samira Ahmed

Ken Holland: A Storm Blew in from Paradise by Johannes Anyuru
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Pat Zylius:Iain M. Banks's Matter
Flose LaPierre: How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
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Barbra Nightingale: Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere
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Ernesto Cepeda: No fiction... right now I am mesmerized reading Rebecca Solint's memoir: Recollections of my Nonexistence
Abdulrosheed Oladipupo FASASI

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Ilhem Issaoui: David Foster Wallace's The Pale King.
Michael Minassian: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
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