I'm still not entirely convinced that there isn't another blizzard lurking around the corner, waiting to pounce, yet the calendar insists that summer is on its way. This means that summer reads are right in tow! As I'll snatch at any chance to prattle on about books, here is what I am planning on reading pendant l’été:

This one had been recommended to me by numerous coworkers, yet I am only getting around to reading it now. Though it took some time for this book to eke into my cross-hairs, it was well worth the wait. Brand writes apart from staying put, like the only way to live is to keep the mind dislodged. My friend Eli Tareq Lynch, an excellent poet themselves, wrote a great review of The Blue Clerk, which you can consume here. 

Michael Deforge is back with a vengeance! Leaving Richard's Valley is Deforge's daily web-comic that was serialized on Instagram, and finally collected by D+Q this year. I love occupying his altitude—at times dizzying and always with a sense of lift and thrust. This is sure to be one of my favourite comics at year's end.

Renee Gladman—"writer of drawings"—has a new book, and it seems like a force to be reckoned with. On Instagram (@prosearchitectures), Gladman described Morelia simply as a "43-page crime novel". I am super excited to find out how that takes shape in the hands of one of the most skilled and daring writers in the English language.

We have been treated to 3 (!!!) Etel Adnan books in less than a year! Keep eyes peeled for Time, which is releasing from Nightboat later this month.

I am forever a fan of Brecht Evens' neon-noirs, so am eagerly looking forward to reading Les Rigoles, his latest published by Actes Sud.  

After having attended the wonderful launch of this book the other day at La Petite, I cannot wait to dig into Alicia Elliott's new essay collection. 

I've had my eye on Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina for a while now, which is slated to arrive in stores in two weeks time. I have long been fascinated by the Austrian's poetry, which investigates "the nature and limits of language in the face of historical violence", but have never read her fiction. This novel boasts one of the covers of the year to boot!

I read anything that Wave publishes, and this is my pick-of-the-bunch from their most recent crop. (I am also thrilled that they are publishing a new Mary Ruefle title later this year!)

Perhaps my favourite novel of the year thus far. Lost Children Archive is a vast story-scape peppered with intimate and lyric needlework—it is about a family on a road trip whose lives entangle with the immigration crisis at the southwestern border of America. Blending sound and texts and images, Luiselli uses her mélange-circuitry to probe what it means to document. It is so full of risk and wisdom and ache, I cannot recommend it highly enough.