It’s no secret that our staff loves books. Reading is our superpower. We read submissions for Minerva Rising and tons of books and journals for our own personal edification. Here’s what we’ve been reading over the summer:
Brooke — Graphic Designer & Prose Reader:
- We Were Witches – Ariel Gore
- Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
- The Second Detective – Shannon Mullally
- Three small pieces from the Cupboard Pamphlet press: Daddy Issues by Alex McElroy, A Brief Encyclopedia of Modern Magic by M. Stewart and The Movie My Murderer Makes, Season II by Christopher Shipman
- And currently making her way through Middlemarch by George Eliot, and Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi.
Alissa – Prose Editor:
- Into the Water – Paula Hawkins
- Fulfilling the Promise of the Community College – The American Association of Community Colleges (Editor)
- And currently re-reading Women Who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph. D.
Nia – Assistant Editor:
- The Collected Schizophrenias – Esme Wujum Wang
- How We Became Human – Joy Harjo
- Summer of ’69 – Elin Hilderbrand
Kim – Executive Editor:
- Days of Moonlight – Loren Edizel
- With the Fire on High – Elizabeth Acevedo
- Corregidora -Gayl Jones
- Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate – Anne Ostby
- And currently reading Heavy: An American Memoir – Kiese Laymon
