Hannah Rigney |
website of Erin Pringle
writer of fictions,
tender of small fires,
dreamer born out of the Midwest
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Book Your Stocking with Hannah Rigney
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Book Your Stocking with Donna Miscolta
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Book Your Stocking: Day 14
Thanks for returning to Book Your Stocking, the somewhat-annual advent of books wherein avid readers recommend books for your stocking or sock drawer.
I'm not only happy to welcome Donna Miscolta to today's session, but also grateful that she continues to accept my invitations to share her thoughts on here.
If you missed a session or would like to see more of Donna's past recommendations, visit http://www.erinpringle.com/p/book-your-stocking.html
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Recommendation: Inter State by José Vadi
Why: In these wry, intelligent essays, Vadi chronicles the changes in his beloved home state from the time his grandfather followed the crops as a California migrant worker, through the tech boom, high-speed rail development, wildfires, and the pandemic and the resulting gentrification, ghost towns, homelessness, and his own sense of displacement.
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About today’s reader: Donna Miscolta is the author of three books of fiction, the most recent of which, Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, won the International Latino Book Award Gold Medal for Best Collection of Stories and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. www.donnamiscolta.com
Donna Miscolta, photo by Meryl Schenker |
Monday, December 13, 2021
Book Your Stocking with Regi Claire
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Recommendation: The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
Why: Written with panache and admirable craft, this compulsively readable, witty, intelligent and moving novel set in the legal circles of Hong Kong and England tells the story of a wife’s secret longings and betrayals.
(Note: part of a trilogy but standalone.)
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About today's reader: Swiss-born Regi Claire is a prizewinning poet and fiction writer based in Scotland. www.regiclaire.com
Regi Claire |
Sunday, December 12, 2021
Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (December 12, 2021)
Please enjoy this week's edition of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, wherein I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee.
Poems read:
- Winter by Billy Collins
- Winter by Marie Ponsot
- Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost
- Foxes in Winter by Mary Oliver
- The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
Book Your Stocking with Erin Pringle
Book Your Stocking 2021 |
Book Your Stocking: Day 12
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Recommendation: Known by Salt by Tina Mozelle Braziel
Why: Her poetry doesn't give a f*ck that it grew up in a trailer park and understands lakes, lipstick, and low-income living. I feel recognized when I read her work. Real, raw, and what poetry looks like when it's by the people for the people--impossibly gorgeous.
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About today's reader: I write stories in all sizes and prefer to read poetry.
Saturday, December 11, 2021
Book Your Stocking with Ann Tweedy
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Book Your Stocking: Day 11
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Recommendation: This Wound Is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Why: These poems' exploration of colonialism and its effects on the speaker, viscerally in his body, are shattering, and yet the poems are filled with tenderness for his kookum (grandmother), his lovers, and himself.
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About today's reader: Ann Tweedy is the author of the award-winning poetry book, The Body's Alphabet (Headmistress), and three chapbooks: A Registry of Survival (Last Word), White Out (Green Fuse Poetic Arts), and Beleaguered Oases (Seven Kitchens). www.anntweedy.com
Ann Tweedy photo by Karen Wolf |
Friday, December 10, 2021
Book Your Stocking with Heather Keast (my partner)
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Book Your Stocking: Day 10
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Recommendation: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
Why: I learned a lot. And it was a hard tone to strike to tell these horrific stories of genocide with just a touch of humor so that you could get through the book. It was just well done.
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About today's reader: Heather Keast reads books and teaches books.
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Hezada! I Miss You Named Notable in Shelf Unbound's 2021 Best Indie Books
Good news!
View all the winners, finalists, and notables here: https://issuu.com/shelfunbound/docs/2021_awards-issue-2021-december-january
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Purchase Hezada! I Miss You from the awesome Awst Press: https://awst-press.com/shop/hezadaBook Your Stocking with Michael Noll
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Book Your Stocking: Day 9
Welcome to Thursday and to the day Michael Noll joins us to give his reading recommendation for the year. One of the most avid readers I know, Michael has found the book that, at least by the title, suggests that he has nothing left to read.
Thanks to Michael for taking part. And to you, fellow reader, come back again for more ideas for your stocking (and the stockings of your friends). Miss a day? Check here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/book-your-stocking.html
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Recommendation: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Why: This book is worth the hype: it re-examines the foundations of so-called Western thought to show that the way our government and society is set up is not the only option and probably not even the best option.
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About today's reader: Michael Noll writes fiction and is the Community Schools Coordinator in Peñasco, NM.
Michael Noll |
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Book Your Stocking with Ben Cartwright
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Book Your Stocking: Day 8
This year, avid readers were asked to recommend a book, story, poem, OR song. Ben Cartwright is both today's word-consultant and the first to rise up and say, Listen to this song, friends.
And so we shall.
Let's.
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Recommendation: [song] "God Lifts Up the Lowly" by Ezra Furman
Why: Hope requires toughness and resolve for individuals and folks trying to organize, and this song conveys the type of hope that won't lay down or quit.
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About today's reader: Ben Cartwright is a poet and a teacher.
Ben Cartwright |