June 2023 Reading

 

• Second Dad Summer by Benjamin Klas. (kindle). 228 pgs
• An Unthinkable Thing by Nicole Lundrigan. (kindle and Audible audiobook). 349
• Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction. (ComiXology ebook). 313 pgs.
• The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and science fiction writing in the East Village by Samuel R. Delany. (kindle). 584 pgs.
• The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany. (kindle and Audible audiobook). 153 pgs.
• Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany. (kindle and Audible audiobook). 249 pgs.
• Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney. (kindle and Audible audiobook). 802 pgs.
• Let the Record Show: A political history of Act Up, New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman. (kindle and Libby audiobook). 738 pgs.
• The Aquanaut by Dan Santat. (Comixology ebook). 243 pgs.
• The Fixer by Bernard Malamud. (kindle and Audible audiobook). 306 pgs.  

Here is my log of June reading. A kids book, a couple graphic novels, as well as more traditional books.

I don’t know if any struck me as masterworks that shine through the ages aside from Malamud. Delany has written a lot, but he certainly has pursued his own vision of the strange. He’s definitely not for the masses. The Schulman book had its value, but the way the book was arranged was a very non traditional oral history and I would have preferred a more traditional approach. Plus I got the sense that she wrote the book because she hated the attention Larry Kramer and Tony Kushner have gotten and wanted to remind that act up included much more than educated relatively wealthy gay white men living in lower Manhattan.