Titles Read in 2023

January

Akitsu Quarterly

winter 2022. Robin White, editor

Can’t and Won’t: stories

Lydia Davis

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Happy-Go-Lucky

David Sedaris

The Caged Owl: new & selected poems

[the “New Poems” section]

Gregory Orr

Lumen de Lumine

Norman Dubie

Ledger

Jane Hirshfield

Walking the Dog in a Time of Rage

Phil Taggart

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, cafe society, and an early cry for civil rights

David Margolick

Entire Dilemma

Michael Burkard

My Queer War

James Lord

Liebestrasse

Greg Lockard, writer; Tim Fish, artist

Astro City, v.14: Reflections

Kurt Busiek, writer; Brent Eric Anderson, Alex Ross, artists

Contemporary Macedonian Poetry

edited & translated by Ewald Osers

The Complete Peanuts, 1965-1966

Charles M. Schulz

February

King-Cat Comix and Stories #82

John Porcellino

Lone Rock Falls

a comics anthology Donna Almendrala, Kat Efird, Nomi Kane

We Are Mermaids

Stephanie Burt

How Did We Ever: selected poems, 2012-2022

Rebecca Radner

Love Falls on Us: a story of American ideas and African LGBT lives

Robbie Corey-Boulet

How to Write an Autographical Novel: essays

Alexander Chee

Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved

Gregory Orr

March

American Studies

Louis Menand

Passion

Brane Mozetic, translated by Tamara Soban

Ten to One: selected poems

Bob Perelman

The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

The Grand Piano: an experiment in collective autobiography, 1975-1980, Part 4

Carla Harryman, Kit Robinson, and eight other poets

Trash Panda, v.4, winter 2022/23

Martian: the Saint of Loneliness

Jams Cagney

Hymns of St. Bridget & other writings

Bill Berkson & Frank O’Hara

But Then You Danced: tanka

Jeanne Lupton

Radical; Life with Larry; In the Popular Lane; These Songs

four chapbooks by Jeanne Lupton

A Still Life

minicomic by Josue Cruz

HI8TUS

a one-shot comic by Josue Cruz

Astro City, v.16: Broken Melody

Busiek, Anderson, Ross

How Beautiful the Beloved

Gregory Orr

April

Blondie: against the odds, 1974-1982

booklet accompanying 3-CD set

Planisphere

John Ashbury

Amerigo: the man who gave his name to America

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Astro City, v.17: Aftermaths

Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, Alex Ross

Surviving Home

Katerina Canyon

River Inside the River

Gregory Orr

Broken Vessels: essays

Andre Dubus

Father and Son

Majid Naficy, translated by Harriet Tannenbaum & the poet

The Sum of Us; what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together

Heather McGhee

On Elizabeth Bishop

Colm Toibin

Anthology of Chinese Literature: from early times to the fourteenth century

edited by Cyril Birch

May

The Grand Piano: an experiment in collective autobiography, Part 5

Tom Mandel, Ron Silliman, et al

Fathoms: the world in the whale

Rebecca Griggs

Getting It Together

Sina Grace & Omar Spahl, writers; Jenny D. Fine, art

Number One Is Walking: my life in the movies and other diversions

Steve Martin; drawings by Harry Bliss

My Life as a Traitor

Zarah Ghahramani with Robert Hillman

Greenlight Your Book: how writers can succeed in the new era of publishing

Brooke Warner

We Were Eight Years in Power: an American tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

June

Secret Life 

Theo Ellsworth; an adaptation of a story by Jeff VanderMeer

Berkeley Noir

edited by Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill

Abba Gold, part of the 33 1/3 series

Elizabeth Vincentelli

Nova Express: the restored text

William S. Burroughs; edited by Oliver Harris

The New Los Angeles Poets

edited by Jack Grapes

In the Name of Identity: violence & the need to belong

Amin Maalouf

July

Barbaric Vast & Wild: a gathering of outside and subterranean poetry from origins to present

edited by Jerome Rothenberg & John Bloomberg-Rissman

Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine

Anna Reid

Exhibits

John Yau

Poetry, June 2008

Christian Wiman, editor

Tales from the Ant World

Edward O. Wilson

August

The Life and Times of Little Richard, the quasar of rock

Charles White

Berlin Diptychon

poems by John Yau; photographs by Bill Barrette

Don’t Take Photos of the Landscape; Take Portraits with a View of the Background If You Want

Sara Camhaji; translated by Robin Myers

Anthology of Chinese Literature, v.2: from the 14th century to the present day

edited by Cyril Birch

The Passionate Spectator: essays on art and poetry

John Yau

Eruptions of Inanna: justice, gender, and erotic power

Judy Grahn

Practising Angels: a contemporary anthology of San Francisco Bay Area poetry

edited by Michael Mayo

September

Deaf Utopia: a memoir — and a love letter to a way of life

Nyle DiMarco with Robert Siebert

My Troubles with Crumb, a 2-vol oversized comic

Matt MacFarland

Meditations, a 7-page comic story in b&w trade-paperback-sized prints

Gerry Chow

The Taste of Blood

Linda Lancione

Girlwater

Emerson Murray

Grown-Up Elementary

D’Mani Thomas

Out of Print

Julian Poirier

Street Theology 

Michael Koch

The Dream That Is Childhood: a memoir in verse

Sandra Wassilie

Fuck You — Aloha — I Love You

Juliana Spahr

Late Along the Edgelands

Eric Falci

A Union Like Ours: the love story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney

Scott Bane

Black Hope

Marsha de la O

Etymologies

Walter Ancarrow

October

On Writing and Failure

Stephen Marche

Pamela: a novel

Pamela Lu

Marry Me a Little: a graphic memoir

Rob Kirby

Oz Squad: March of the Tin Soldiers

Steve Ahlquist, illustrated by David Lee Ingersoll

A Symphony for Broken Instruments: selected & unpublished poems

Julia Vinograd; edited by Bruce Isaacson

November

The Out Side: trans and nonbinary comics

edited by The KAO with Christensen & David Daneman

All of the Marvels: a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told

Douglas Wolk

Carrying the Darkness: the poetry of the Vietnam War

edited by W. D. Ehrhart

The Third Book of Oz: the collected and complete Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz and The Woggle-Bug Book

L. Frank Baum; edited by Martin Williams; illustrated by Eric Shanower

We’re Still Here: an all-trans comics anthology

edited by Tara Madison Avery & Jeanne Thornton

I Am Listening to Istanbul: selected poems

Orhan Veli Kanik; translated by Talat Sait Halman

December

EROica

William F. DeVault

Lightning Flowers: my journey to uncover the cost of saving a life

Katherine E. Standefer

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Catherynne M. Valente; illustrations by Ana Juan

The Throwback Special, July 22, 2023

edited by Dan O’Connell (Dan O.)

Complete Poems

Orhan Veli; translated by George Messo

The Nothing

Hanif Kureishi

Talk to Me: listening between the lines

Anna Deavere Smith

You Have to Be Gay to Know God

Siya Khumalo