I have a bad habit of trying to work my way through too many books at the same time. That means I have unfinished books lying around waiting for my attention even as I jump into new ones.
My current list is fairly diverse and includes a fairly broad array of genres. (This does not include the many books I started early last year and set aside for reasons I can’t remember.)
The Radical King, by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., edited by Cornel West
On Disobedience, by Erich Fromm
A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James
Murder Ballads, by Jake Adan York
Perfidy, by James Ellroy
The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All, by C.D. Wright
Selected Poems, by William Carlos Williams
Various essays by Hannah Arendt
The Criminal comic book series by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Ultimate Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Power and Responsibility, by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley
The Ms. Marvel comics
There are lots of other books on the shelf I call my on-deck circle — books by Greil Marcus, Robert Hass and Junot Diaz — but I’ll try to plow through these even as the semester begins and my focus will turn to student work.
Hank Kalet 