(inspired by the incredible Mark Baumer but with a personal variation, namely, this strange habit I've cultivated to narrow my insatiable appetite for books wherein I pick a letter to head the author's first name for each month)
2018
Adam Zagajewski,
Alexander Chee, How to Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
Amos Jasper Wright IV,
Charles Bowden, The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey
Charles Simic,
Emma Bolden, House Is An Enigma
Fanny Howe,
Frye Gaillard, A Hard Rain
Henry Wei Leung, Goddess of Democracy
Kwoya Fagin Maples, Mend
Molly Brodak, Bandit
Sarah Ruhl, 100 Essays I Don't Have to Write
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds
2017
David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Elizabeth Hardwick
Eric Hoffer,
Jane Smiley,
Mircea Cartarescu, Blinding
Mona Simpson,
Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay