STARK: Sunday Lit: demand and supply

I chose to cancel my subscriptions to, and daily delivery of, the newspapers.

When queried by each paper as to why I wasn’t renewing

I clicked on Content.

Discontented with content.

Here’s a list of what I’ve been reading

To fill the vacuum left by the cancellations

And more importantly

To become content with content again.

The Director, by Daniel Kehlmann, 2023

English translation from the German by Ross Benjamin, 2024

Triage, by Claudia Rankine, 2026

Dèy, by Edwidge Danticat, 2026

The Disappearing Act, by Maria Stepanova, 202l4

English translation from Russian by Sasha Dugdale, 2026

The Collected Poems, 1956 – 1974, by Edward Dorn

Hello La Jolla, by Edward Dorn, 1978

Muévelo, by Miriam Zoila Perez and Veronica Bayetti Flores, 2026

Cute Accelerationism, by Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic, 2024, 2026

Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic, by Daniel Harris, 2000

Three Tenses, by Ed Park, 2026

Grendel, by John Gardner, 1971

After Ruben, by Francisco Aragon, 2020

A Face Out of Clay, by Brent Ameneyro, 2024

Rara Avis, by Blas Falconer, 2024

Love Prodigal, Tracy Brimhall, 2024

Becoming Ghost, Kathy Linh Che, 2025

And listening to:

And writing, here’s

STARK