May 1: Books to Read and Review
After devoting much of April to Don DeLillo’s Zero K, my books-to-read-and-review stack has grown into quite a tower. Here’s where we’re at as of May 1.
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (Knopf)
Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov (FSG)
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (Little, Brown)
Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Seagull Books)
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan (Hogarth)
All Tomorrow’s Parties by Rob Spillman (Grove Press)
The Ancient Minstrel by Jim Harrison (Grove Press)
I recently finished The Ancient Minstrel and will be writing that up next. I’m currently about 75 pages into The Year of the Runaways, too, which already strikes me as an exceptionally well-orchestrated novel. I’m very much looking forward to seeing what Sahota has in mind for the next 400 pages…
- The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala - March 15, 2020
- Indelicacy by Amina Cain - March 2, 2020
- Abigail by Magda Szabó - February 22, 2020
