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Yet another installment of the What We’re Reading series (here’s what we were reading in July) with all sorts of novels, cookbooks, story collections and more. Please chime in if you’ve read any of these books and also let us know what good books you’ve read lately…

Rhonda:
When I Forgot, Elina Hirvonen
The Twin, Gerbrand Bakker
The Lovers, Vendela Vida

Adam:
God is Dead, Ron Currie, Jr.
Along with many Hawthorne and freelance projects

Liz:
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
Habibi, Craig Thompson
Tender, Nigel Slater
Blue Nights, Joan Didion

Olivia:
Wire to Wire, Scott Sparling
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead, Jody M. Roy and Frank Meeink

Sophie:
The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks
Tin House Magazine

Emily:
By the North Gate, Joyce Carol Oates
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Penelope:
Tabloid City, Pete Hamill
Aftermath, Scott Nadelson
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood

Lots of mss getting printed these days at Hawthorne for forthcoming titles!

Yet another installment of the What We’re Reading series (here’s what we were reading in the winter) with some nice summer reads. Please chime in if you’ve read any of these books and also let us know what pages you’ve been turning lately…

Rhonda:
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitte
Balthus: A Biography, Nicholas Fox Weber
The New Yorker
2012 and 2013 Hawthorne Books titles

Adam:
Deliverance, James Dickey
Drift and Swerve, Samuel Ligon
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver
Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms
Dora: A Head Case, Lidia Yuknavitch (forthcoming summer 2012)

Liz:
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin
Spoon Fed, Kim Severson
Lucky Peach, McSweeney’s new quarterly food journal

Oldies but goodies...

We like lists so we decided to do another installment of the “What We’re Reading” series this week in hopes that you do to. Please chime in if you’ve read any of these books and also let us know what you’ve been turning the pages of lately…

Rhonda:
The Appointment, Herta Muller
Riverhouse, Sarahlee Lawrence

Adam:
So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, Reginald McKnight
Proofing The Luminst, David Rocklin for Hawthorne Books

Liz:
The Price of Altruism, Oren Harman
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott
Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill

What our interns are reading…

Daniel Kine:
The Ticking is the Bomb, Nick Flynn
The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
Interzone, William Burroughs
Nobody Move, Denis Johnson

Ben Milton:
Home, Marilynne Robinson
Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge
The City and the City, China Mieville
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Rosalyn Radakovich:
Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain
(and a bunch of homework for my Croatian class, so unfortunately, nothing else.)

Always reading...

Kate:
A lot of articles in Harper’s Magazine and The New Yorker
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Nomad: From Islam to America, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Red Familes v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture, Naomi Cahn and June Carbone

Rhonda:
The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk
Love Junkie: A Memoir, Rachel Resnick
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, Wilbert Rideau

Adam:
Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Robert Lopez
Forty Stories, Donald Barthelme
Zeroville, Steve Erickson
Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch (proofing for Hawthorne)
Elegy, Larry Levis

Liz:
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Hot and Hot Fish Club Cookbook, Chris Hastings, Idie Hastings, and Katherine Cobbs
Temperance, Cathy Malkasian
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, Judith Jones
Past issues of The New Yorker

Good stuff on the shelf...

Kate:
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon
You Are Your Child’s First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin Dancy

Rhonda:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Adam:
The Disappointment Artist essays by Jonathan Lethem. 
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Dr. Amen
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Scott Nadelson’s upcoming short story collection, Aftermath

Liz:
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Little Green by Loretta Stinson
Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Vij’s: Elegant and Inspired Indian Cuisine by Vikram Vij and Meeru Dhalwala
And more submissions than I care to summarize here.

We always like to keep up with what these folks are reading. Especially since Bookslut managing editor Michael Schaub is now a bona fide PDX’r. Welcome to town Bookslutman.

What are you reading?