Reading Stuff [2022]: an unofficial/incomplete/overly optimistic list.


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* I like weird, noisy, transcendent literature.
* Update [2022]: This is an old list. I rarely remove from it, but I do add.

**Still haven't made it to...
- Black Folk Could Fly, Randall Kenan
- Self-Portrait with Ghost, Meng Jin
- Gay Bar, Jeremy Lin
- Luster, Raven Leilani
- At Night All Blood is Black
- Notes of the Crocodile
- Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
- Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
- Florida, Lauren Groff
- An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine
- Fiebre Tropical, Juli Lopera
- Snow Hunters, Paul Yoon
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
- Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor
- Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- The Known World, Edward P Jones
- Native Speaker, Chang Rae Lee
- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
- On the Move, Oliver Sacks
- Lost Notes, KCRW
- 10 Things That Scare Me, WNYC


**But recently devouring ...
- Intimacies, Katie Kitamura
- PET, Akwaeki Emezi
- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
- -Bluets, Maggie Nelson
- Peking duck, Ling Ma
- Normal People, Sally Rooney
- Amateur, Thomas Page McBee
- Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong
- The Book of Delights, Ross Gay
- Cleanness, Garth Greenwell
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Feed, Tommy Pico
- Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
- Good Talk, Mira Jacobs
- In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
- On Immunity, Eula Biss
- The Line of Beauty, Allan Hollinghurst
- The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee
- A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
- Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips
- Best American Essays, Hilton Als
- Chemistry, Weike Wang
- The Writing Life, Annie Dillard

** And nonbooks including...
Podcasts!
[ For more see: https://tinyletter.com/goodvibesonly]
- Jad Abumrad, The Longform Podcast
- The Other Latif Nasser
- Falling, Radiolab
- Loops, Radiolab
- Random Acts of History, This American Life
- The Caliphate, The New York Times
- Barry Jenkins and Greta Gerwig, The A24 Podcast
- The Black Panther Soundtrack, Song Exploder
- The Gun Show, More Perfect
- Marc Maron Interviews Terry Gross, WTF with Marc Maron
- Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Longform Podcast
- Jia Tolentino, The Longform Podcast
- 74 Seconds, Missouri Public Radio
- A Dancer Dies Twice, KCRW
- No (Series), The Heart
- White Haze, This American Life
- Nicholas Britell: Moonlight, Song Exploder
- American Pendulum I, More Perfect
- Blink Once For Yes, Love + Radio

Shorter stuff!
- A Small Place for Fugitives, Jia Tolentino
- Writing in the Dark, Kathryn Schulz [New York Magazine]
- Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet, Michael Jordan [Medium]
- Annie Dillard and the Writing Life, Alexander Chee [The Morning News]
- The Charms of Wikipedia, Nicholson Baker
- What Getting An MFA In Fiction Meant To Me, Alexander Chee
- Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People, Brenden Lake
- Everyone is Getting Hilariously Rich and You're Not [New York Times]
- Lady Bird (screenplay), Greta Gerwig
- Her (screenplay), Spike Jonze
- Lessons I Learned Making the Daily, Andy Mills [Transom]
- This Is How Sexism Works in Silicon Valley, Ellen Pao [The Cut]
- Selling China by the Sleeve Dance, Nicholas Hune Brown [Hazlitt]
- A Girl's Guide to Sexual Purity, Carmen Maria Machado [Los Angeles Review of Books]
- Experience, Tessa Hadley [The New Yorker]
- Daisy, Chang Rae Lee [The New Yorker]
- An Evening Out, Garth Greenwell [The New Yorker]


And a tribute to the greatest couple of strips of all time:
- Don't Knock My Smock (dot com) : http://dontknockmysmock.com/
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