everything i've read this month! i am resting, refreshing, and remaining open to inspiration in these weeks before nanowrimo begins <3

interviews

• louise glück @ washington square review
• ali smith's interview with the paris review
• grace paley's interview with the paris review
• jonas mekas on the early days of new york's avant-garde
• jonas mekas on the future of the avant-garde
• truman capote's interview with the paris review
• louise glück on winning the nobel prize

short stories

• a hunger artist – franz kafka
• it – norman mailer

articles

• over the whole wood: robert graves and the significance of david thomas – anne marsh penton
• five ways to look at malevich’s black square
• a brief history of "happenings" in 1960s new york
• swept away by a dark current: the plays of eugene o'neill
• how a rare and ancient manuscript moved me to write a novel
• writers and their favorite tools
• the essence of kafkaesque
• hilary mantel on how writers learn to trust themselves
• for hilary mantel, there's no time like the past
• on sylvia plath's creative breakthrough at the yaddo artists' colony

books

• the book of delights – ross gay
• drifts – kate zambreno
• still life with oysters and lemon: on objects and intimacy – mark doty
• the great war and modern memory – paul fussell
• drive your plow over the bones of the dead – olga tokarczuk
• intimations – zadie smith
• the mercies – kiran millwood hargrave
• break the bodies, haunt the bones – micah dean hicks

plays

• antigonick – anne carson ⟲
• fences – august wilson
• desire under the elms – eugene o'neill
• journey's end – r.c. sherriff
• orpheus descending – tennessee williams
• cat on a hot tin roof – tennessee williams
• absurd person singular – alan ayckbourn

poetry

• a village life – louise glück

other

• i had nowhere to go – jonas mekas