2024 Summer/Fall Books, A Biased Preview, Pt. 3

September

Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World, Peter Godfrey-Smith

—This is the guy who wrote that book about octopi, Other Minds. We’re going to get some serious Consciousness As An Emergent Property Of The Universe Itself stuff here, I suspect

A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enriquez, trans. Megan McDowell

—More stories by the beloved Argentinian horror writer

I Love Hearing Your Dreams: Poems, Matthew Zapruder

—This poet’s work has been set to music by Missy Mazzoli, he edits Wave Books, and his grandfather caught that film of Kennedy’s assassination. No idea if he’s good or not because I am not that good of a reader of poetry. Sorry

This Earth, My Brother, Kofi Awoonor

—Reprinting of an influential 1971 experimental novel by the late Ghanaian poet

Sozaboy, Ken Saro-Wiwa

—Another reissue of an experimental classic of African literature

The Last Dream, Pedro Almodovar, trans. Frank Wynne

—Short stories by one of the greatest living filmmakers

Latino Poetry (LOA), ed. Rigoberto Gonzalez

—Four hundred years of poetry by Latinx authors, claimed for Library of America

Ernest Gaines: Four Novels (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, In My Father’s House, A Gathering of Old Men, A Lesson Before Dying) (LOA)

—Do you like writing Sweeping Retrospective Accounts Of Major Novelists??? Here’s your chance