Documented in its final months under the direction of the original founder and collector, Greene gives a probing look into the museum’s history and the curiosity that keeps it alive. As its subtitle suggests, this chapbook-sized essay delivers on answering any questions you might have about the museum, including the occasional anatomy lesson. While it’s never been proven, they claim to be the only institution in the world with a collection of phallic specimens from every mammal species found in the country (sometimes even multiple depending on the phallic quality). And while you could spend hours at the National Museum of Iceland diving into the history of Vikings, The Icelandic Phallological Museum deserves the award for most peculiar and intriguing exhibit.
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From the Whales of Iceland to the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft to the archive of new wave music housed in the Icelandic Punk Museum, there’s something to pique anyone’s interest. Over 265 museums and public collections call Iceland home. Kendra Greene (2015)| nonfiction, Anomalous Press For those who like books that make you want to underline every sentence, and stories about women finding their way to themselves. Janie is a woman who takes life into her own hands, relentlessly pursuing the far horizon and refusing to let her dreams be “mocked to death by Time.” Through everything thrown at her, from soul-numbing relationships to deadly hurricanes, Janie proves herself to be a woman who will stop at nothing to know her truest self and live her most luminous life.
All of it told through the lens of Janie Crawford, who breaks through the restrictions thrust upon her at every turn, first at the hands of her grandmother, and then at the hands of her three husbands, who all seek to dim her shine to different extents and in different ways. It’s about how love grows and changes and dies, and how we transform when dreams and delusions disintegrate. It’s about the Black experience and all-Black towns in the Southern United States in the 1930s. It’s also about stories told on porches, about awakenings under pear trees, about power and submission.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a book about self-revelation, about love, and about whether the two are inextricably entwined, or inevitably incompatible. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) | fiction, Amistad Press For those that like Faustian narratives, sadistic priests, and scandalous literary confessions. Part satire, part gothic thriller, it’s an entertaining literary parable on narcissism, vanity, and the dangers of being a writer. “What is the key that is capable of forcing the mind of an aspiring writer who has tried everything without result?”īetween burned manuscripts, overly ambitious writers, and the questionable ethics of publishing, Maurensig’s fable is timeless. Only the new parish priest, Father Cornelius, seems to notice the spiraling of the townspeople and the impending threat of the publisher, believing him to be the devil incarnate. When a mysterious big-time publisher comes to town offering a prize for the best manuscript, the once docile group of hopeful writers gives in to sinister thoughts of greed and envy at the chance of fame. Despite regularly being rejected, they remain hopeful that one day they will be published by a major house.
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In Maurensig’s A Devil Comes to Town, a small idyllic village of aspiring writers spend their free time working on poems, essays, memoirs, and novels. We might still be living in a hellscape in 2022, but here’s to brightening things up with another year of sporadic recommendations, collages, and above all, devastatingly good books.Ī Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig, translated by Anne Milano Appel (2019) | fiction, World Editions One thing has changed, though: we’ve decided that time is a construct and refuse to adhere to any kind of regular schedule, as you may have noticed. This newsletter remains committed to just that.
One of our more ambitious literary collaborations, we set out to rebel against the buzzy lists of bestsellers and new releases and delve deeper into the vast trove of gorgeous and enduring books from years past. February 2022’s Backlist Book Recommendations
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