This book is technically still forthcoming from Atelier26 Books. Dude is a fantastic presence on a stage, y’all! He puts on a highly entertaining reading. Recently, I was lucky enough to get invited to read with poet Shawnte Orion on his book tour for The Existentialist Cookbook. The Existentialist Cookbook, by Shawnte Orion (I’ve already read it, and it’s amazing - well-crafted and cleverly written, insightful social commentary wrapped up inside a brilliant send-up of exploitation film and literature.) The series sounds fascinating, and when a librarian and bibliophile friend of ours mentioned her interest in it, too, I knew I needed to pick up the first collected volume.

I first heard about this comics series when author (and Portlander!) Kelly Sue DeConnick appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered. I picked up this copy in August, when I read with Gayle as part of Christopher Bowen’s West Coast tour.īitch Planet, Vol 1: Extraordinary Machine, by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landroz This is the first book in a trilogy, the teaser-prequel to which, Blood Gravity, I’ve mentioned several times on the blog (and which I reviewed on Goodreads - it’s a hell of a book). The backlog, it is impressive.Īnyway, here are some of the books I’ve recently bought, swapped, or finished reading: Clockwise from top-left: BROKEN PARTS, by Gayle Towell BITCH PLANET, by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landroz THE EXISTENTIALIST COOKBOOK, by Shawnte Orion PEOPLE LIKE YOU, by Margaret Malone BEAR THE PALL, edited by Sally K.

And yeah, I’ve barely made a dent in that stack but in the meantime, I have indeed still been collecting more books. I don’t think I’ve posted any book porn since I brought back my tremendous stack of books from Sewanee more than two months ago.

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