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Alison’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alison Kinney
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Avidly Reads Opera
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United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction)
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Reading it in French for the first time alongside the Davis translation, which is pellucid as all hell, and which I love. Already read À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (and hated both translations I had for reference), so I'm backtracking now.
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| My first acquaintance with Tracy K. Smith's work was her amazing erasure poem "Watershed," which exposes DuPont's poisoning of groundwater with carcinogenic chemicals. (It's collected in WADE IN THE WATER, which I promptly bought and never had leisur ...more | |
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For the sake of spreading joy, I'm just going to post the most delightful and illuminating books I've read this summer and fall. First: Randa Jarrar, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY. "For a very long time, I intensely disliked the word naturalized. It made me fe ...more |
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When Elena Ferrante's MY BRILLIANT FRIEND burst onto the literary scene and beyond, so many people told me, "I'm not sure YOU will like it, Alison." Now I'm wondering, What on earth did they think about what I like and don't like? It's a book about gi ...more |
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Next up in book joy and radical self-care: I've been using excerpts from Alexis Pauline Gumbs's UNDROWNED for years, ever since it was first taught to me by the great ecocritic (and my former student) Quinn Luthy. "This section looks at the revolution ...more |
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Today in book joy/sorrow/reflection: Miller Oberman's first collection, THE UNSTILL ONES. When I got to his translation of "The Ruin," these lines just took my breath away. "The repairers died." What happens to a culture, a world, when the repairers d ...more |
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| I first loved Marcos Gonsalez's brilliant critical essays on membership in communities that are LGBTQ+, Mexican and Puerto Rican, undocumented folks and U.S. citizens. Reading his memoir PETRO'S THEORY: REIMAGINING THE PROMISED LAND turned my mind to ...more | |
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| I've been teaching the first chapter of Julie Otsuka's THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC in my Bodies of Water course for the first of two units on border crossings and immigration; this summer I devoured the whole novel over two evenings. I love the first per ...more | |
