Major book mail day! I ordered a Renee Gladman bundle directly from Wave Books. With the bundle you get a pretty substantial 40% off! It comes with Calamities, Plans for Sentences and Prose Architectures.
Even though I already have a copy of Calamities the discount still made the bundle worthwhile, especially since I wasn’t able to order one of the other books locally.
Also arriving, unexpectedly, is a photo book called Ueno Park by Yuta Fuchikami. This was 100% an impulse purchase after an effusive recommendation from a writer/photographer I follow online.
Currently reading: How Life Works by Philip Ball 📚
“…the answer in biology is always “yes.” Could it be this or could it be that? Yes. The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but then that creates a new this. It’s for this reason that life can only be understood as a dynamic process of becoming-from conception to the grave."
A second volume of stories by pioneering alt-manga artist Yamada Murasaki. Just released by Drawn & Quarterly.
Currently reading: Event Factory by Renee Gladman 📚
Finished reading: Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang. A thoughtful and inventive collection of stories! I’m looking forward to reading “Stories of Your Life and Others” next 📚
Finished reading: The Crystal Text by Clark Coolidge 📚
