What I’m Reading Right Now:

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha

The Life of Images by Charles Simic

Paradises Lost by Ursula K. LeGuin

Disability Intimacy edited by Alice Wong

Reading List

The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of the books that have shaped my life and writing.

  • Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

  • The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

  • Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

  • The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Song of Two Worlds by Alan Lightman

  • A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

  • Figuring by Maria Popova

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

  • The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimen

  • The Book by Alan Watts

  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

  • The Changeling by Victor LaValle