Reading List First Quarter 2023

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This is a list of nearly everything I've read in January-March 2023. The goal of this is to encourage people to read more and to help me keep track of what I've read if I want to recommend a piece to someone or nominate or vote for works for awards, etc. It will also encourage me to read more.

-Notes on fiction, CNF, and essays included on this list: 

1. Including a work on the list does not reflect if I liked the piece or not. I tried to include all of the fiction and CNF I've read during the time period, regardless of my opinion of the piece.

2. I've starred pieces that that I found particularly memorable. If I did not "star" a story or book, it does not mean I did not enjoy it or thought the writing was bad, it just means that I didn't find it one of the most memorable pieces I read during the time period.

3. I will not "star" an anthology or an issue of a magazine where I had a story appear or if I helped with the project in some notable capacity, even if the overall work was very memorable. 

4. I will not list a whole book or magazine issue unless I read >80% of it.

5. If I found something especially bad about a story or book, I will list it here with a strike through. I hope to do this rarely as I will reserve this only for pieces that I've found push some clearly offensive viewpoint (racism, sexism, etc.) or totally void or creativity, etc. If I simply didn't care for a piece, I will still list it without a strike through.

-For poems and articles, I am only including those I found had something striking or interesting as it would be a little tedious to add every single poem I see on social media or every article I've read as many are just basic news articles or encyclopedia-esque articles I might just read for research. I also have not included articles or reports I had to read for my day job or "unfinished" stories I beta read for other authors.

Long Fiction Works (Short story collections, magazine issues, novels, novellas)

A Compendium of Enigmatic Species (short story collection, contains one of my stories) by Practical Fantasists
A Compendium of Enigmatic Species eBook : Practical Fantasists, 

Brave New Weird (short story collection, contains one of my stories) by Tenebrous Press
BRAVE NEW WEIRD - anthology (softcover 250 pages; includes eBook) | Tenebrous Press (square.site)

Depths of Love: Love thy Enemy (short story collection, contains one of my stories) by Cloaked Press
Depths of Love : Love Thy Enemy - 

This World Belongs to Us (short story collection, I was a first reader and proof-reader for this project) by From Beyond Press
This World Belongs to Us | From Beyond Press

Step Into the Light (short story collection) published by Bag of Bones Press
Step into the Light: An anthology of daylight horror: 

Stoopin: A Bronzeville Twitter Project (poetry collection) by Lloyd Brodnax King
Publications | It Came from Beyond Pulp


Long Nonfiction Works

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains  by Brookshire Bethany
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains: Brookshire, Bethany: 9780063097254: Amazon.com: Books


Short Stories and Flash Fiction


"A Door, A Guide, An Anchor," Somto Ihezue, Frivolous Comma*
https://www.frivolouscomma.com/fiction/a-door-a-guide-an-anchor/

"A Feast for Saints" Silas Bischoff, Metastellar
https://www.frivolouscomma.com/fiction/a-door-a-guide-an-anchor/

"A First Rate Material" Sayaka Murata/Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Electric Literature*

" A Former Apex Predator" Chris Gilman Whitney Roi Faneant Press

"A Girl Explodes" Ruth Joffre Three Lobe Burning Eye

"Aisling" Ian Martine Cassmeyer In All Our Forms: A Shifter Anthology

"All that Glitters is not G(u)ilt" Xan Van Rooyen Hyphen Punk

"All We Have Left Is Ourselves" Oyedotun Damilola Muees Reckoning
https://reckoning.press/all-we-have-left-is-ourselves/

"As The Shore To The Tides, So Blood Calls To Blood" Karlo Yeager Rodríguez Beneath Ceasless Skies*

"Are you A Vessel?" Sloane Leong Dark Matter Magazine

"Beseeching Day" Sonia Overall Seaside Gothic 
"Butirub" Samit Basu Apex Magazine*
https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/butirub/

"Clean up 1997" Joshua Dewain Foster Menagerie

"Devil's Lace" Julie Le Blanc Diabolical Plots

"Dog Song" Avi Naftali Diabolical Plots

"Don’t Worry, the Dog Survives" Reneé Bibby Taco Bell Quarterly

"Gordon’s Perfect Woman" Brandon Case Death Knell Press

"Her Hands" Ginger Strivelli Loralei Signal

"Hers" FERNANDA COUTINHO TEIXEIRA Strange Horizons

"Icarina" Wen-Yi Lee Baffling Magazine*

"Indigo Night" Alex Woodroe Shortwave Publishing

"Into the Dark" Jen Donahue Fantasy Magazine

"Inside the Hospital Room" Jay Heltzer In All Our Forms: A Shifter Anthology

"Is" Joe Frleta Roi Faneant Press

"Lilac and Gin" Dominic Turnea CoffinBell

"New Gommorah" Ella J Lombard The Colored Lens

"Night at the Black Emerald Pub" Brent Peters New Myths*

"Nutures and Protects" Jessica Levai Cosmic Horror Monthly

"OH GOD, HOW THEY HURT ME" RL Summerling Northern Gravy

"On the discovery of a most marvelous species of Angiosperm, Sarraceniarafflesia taurua (Maraetoa 1863), from the Flitcroft Isles" Fayaway & Hermester Barrington Hyphen Punk 

"On the Other Side" Angela Caravan The Sprawl Mag

"Other Planes" Ebere Obua Omenana

"OUR HEARTSTRINGS HOWL THE MOON" ELEANNA CASTROIANNI Strange Horizons

"Our Quiet Guests" Thomas Ha Three Lobe Burning Eye*

"Shallow Roots" P.G. Streeter Cafe Irreal

"Should Have Got Off the Bus When You Could" Joyce Bingham Hearth and Coffin*

"Sidereal" E.G. Condé Solarpunk Magazine

"Siren Call" Sawasti Chatterjee Small Wonders

"Skyscrapers that Twist to the Sun" Erin Brown Fantasy Magazine*

"Still Life With Slain God and Lemon" Anne Leonard Translunar Travelers Lounge

"Still Life with Vivisected Dream" Tiffany Morris Dark Matter Magazine

"Sunchoke" Kathryn McMahon Three Lobe Burning Eye

"Tacorotica: A Fire Sauce Seduction" Rae Knowels Taco Bell Quarterly

"The Ballad of Cattle and Clay" Zoe Polando Ryder Grim and Gilded

"The Chariot" e.x.weis Hyphenpunk

"The Day We Returned to Sunny Town" Angela Liu Fusion Fragment*

"The Dictionary for Dreamers" Cislyn Smith Diabolical Plots

"The Feast of Mulligan Lang" Stark Holborn Interzone Digital*
https://interzone.digital/the-feast-of-mulligan-lang/

"The Forgotten Folk" Woof Achoo Cosmic Horror Monthly*

"The Man Who Saw Dragons" Anahita Hoose Mirror Dance

"The Monologue of a Moon Goddess in the Palace of Pervasive Cold" Anja Hendrikse Liu Diabolical Plots

"The Museum of Erased History" Maria Hossain Translunar Travelers Lounge

"The Mushroom Queen" Liz Ziemska Lightspeed

"The Owl, The Gila Monster and the Panther" Markus Faraday In All Our Forms: A Shifter Anthology

"The River Witch" Emma Brousseau Corvid Queen

"The Saint's Eye" R.L Summerling Sage Cigarettes Magazine*

"The Thousand Tongues of Sara" Jonathan Olfert The Future Fire*

"To Kneel at the Altar of Your Bones" Valo Wing Haven Spec 

"Turducken" Lindz McLeod Baffling Magazine*

"Wapnintu’tijig They Sang Until Dawn" Tiffany Morris  Podcastle

Creative Nonfiction/Essays 

"Amik" Anna Mallikarjunan Honeyguide Magazine

"An American Study" Anna Nguyen Roi Faneant Press

"Everyone is Beautiful Non One is Horny" RS Benedict Blood Knife

"The Implausible Story" Sofia Samatar Menagerie*


Poems

"Charm of Goldfinches" Crystal Sidell Apparition Lit

"Dear White Women" Mari Ramler Taco Bell Quarterly
"Graveyard Shift" Christina Sng, Penumbric Magazine
"i am in love" Emma Florez Dollar Store Mag
"Icy Sky" Konstantin Yakimchuk Field Guide Poetry

"Rain in January" Konstantin Yakimchuk Field Guide Poetry

"Spoiler" Hala Alyan The New Yorker

"The Gaze as She Leaves the Country Club’s Annual Cocktail Party" Adele Evershed

"THE SUBWAY IS ANOTHER PLACE TO DIE" Angela Liu

"Then I Give You Magic" John Belk Menagerie

"Upon getting bored of Nietzsche and birdwatching in the Taco Bell drive thru" Kaydance Rice Taco Bell Quarterly
"Voodoo in New Orleans: June 23, 2021" Victor T Cypert Penumbric Mag


"We Are Forgotten" JD Harlock Penumbric Mag



Thousands of Bats Slaughtered Annually in Asia End Up on eBay and Etsy for Artsy Americans
https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-bats-slaughtered-annually-asia-end-ebay-and-etsy-artsy-americans-681147

Charlie Javice Joins List of Forbes '30 Under 30' Alumni Who’ve (Allegedly) Committed Fraud
https://jezebel.com/jp-morgan-charlie-javice-frank-alleged-fraud-1849980215?

Fuck the Poetry Police: On the Index of Major Literary Prizes in the United States




Finally, A Squarely Mediocre Asian American Male Character
How Ethan In 'The White Lotus' Broke The Mold | HuffPost Voices

The Fleishman Effect In a city of Rachels and Libbys, the FX show has some New York moms worried they’re the ones in trouble.
https://www.thecut.com/2023/02/the-fleishman-is-in-trouble-effect.html?

(RE)FRAMING THE NARRATIVE: WORLDBUILDING ON THE PERIPHERY
FEATURE-Dystopia, drought and hope? African cli-fi takes on climate crisis
Why zoos can’t completely lock down to keep animals safe. 

Oscars 2023: S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt) is an incredible action movie with seriously troubling politics - Vox

AI and the American Smile.

Rules, What Rules: Eliminating Adverbs – A. A. Rubin (wordpress.com)

2,000-Year-Old Egyptian Zodiac Symbols Found in Temple Under Soot and Grime (businessinsider.com)

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