39. small.spiral.notebook, volume 3, issue 1. some of the writing is good, some is rough but still interesting, and some of it was mostly just rough, or didn't get to me much. i picked it up in Portland, at the tail end of wandering through Powell's, from a rack of other literary magazines, because i liked the title and because of the photograph of ( Read more... )

i didn't keep up any records of what i read while travelling, so this is hugely incomplete. but then again, i didn't read quite as much as i usually do. so, in only the order in which they are piled on my bookshelf and appear in my memory:
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1. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire. excellent.

2. Trash, Dorothy Allison. a re-read, but still excellent. (jencallisto, did i lend you a copy of this already? i thought i had one, but then i didn't seem to, so i bought another...) the story with all the southern/soul-food in it is called "A Lesbian Appetite".

3. ( Read more... )