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One of the pillars of The Wandering Writer is adventure. It's important for us to find adventure on and off the trail and one of the ways we do that is by reading outside of our comfort zone!
Here's a list of some of our favorite hybrid and experimental literature that's sure to help you adventure between the pages.
Non-Fiction
Phantom Canyon: Essays of Reclamation, Kathryn Winograd
My Body is a Book of Rules, Elisa Washuta
Don’t Come Back, Ferreira Cabeza
The Trouble with Men, David Shields
Seek You, Kristen Radtke
How to Disappear, Akiko Busch
Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, Tiqqun
Egg, Nicole Walker
The After Normal, Nicole Walker
Bluets, Maggie Nelson
Limber, Angela Plester
Szygy, Beauty: An Essay, T Fleischmann
Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through, T Fleischmann
Two or Three Things I Know For Sure, Dorothy Allison
The Pillowbook, Sei Shōnagon
On Imagination, Mary Ruefle
New Organizm: Essais, Andrea Rexilius
When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams
You, Me, and the Violence, Catherine Taylor
Things We Didn’t Talk about when I was a Girl, Jeannine Vanasco
Best of Brevity
52 Men, Louise Wareham
Heating and Cooling, Beth Ann Fennelly
Garments Against Women, Anne Boyer
In Short, Judith Kitchen
Quotients, Tracy O’Neill
The Book of Embraces, Eduardo Galeano
Chronology of Water, Lydia Yuknavitch
Imagine Wanting Only This, Kristen Radtke,
Mourning Diary, Roland Barthes
Lost Wax, Jericho Parms
Suite Venitiuenne, Sophie Calle
I’ll Be your Mirror, David Lazar
Abandon Me, Melissa Febos
Presentimiento, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Descanso for my Father, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Dwellings, Linda Hogan
All The Fierce Tethers, Lia Purpura
On Looking, Lia Purpura
Biography of Silence, Pablo d’Ors
An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky
Fiction
Grief is the Thing With Feathers, Max Porter
Lanny, Max Porter
Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
Multiple Choice, Alejandro Zambra
The Word for Woman is Wilderness, Abi Andrews
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
Poetry
Half of What They Carried Flew Away, Andrea Rexilius
Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong
Pond, Claire Louise-Bennett
Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy, David Lazar
Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky
Brute: Poems, Emily Skaja
Craft
The Shell GAme, Kim Adrian
4th Genre, Michael Steinberg
Draft No. 4, John McPhee
Truth In Nonfiction, David Lazar
Wild Words, Nicole Gulottta