Help Me Compile My PhD Book Lists

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Draft for All Saints II (composition with saints) // 1911 // Wassily Kandinsky

I never thought I’d be a PhD candidate, but here I am, doing the thing.

I am in my last semester of coursework. Despite my being here for nonfiction, I’m taking two poetry classes; one to fulfill a requirement, and one workshop. I am also doing an independent study focused on diaspora narratives. Here’s that list:

Creating Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat, The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Wrestling With the Devil by Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, In the Temple of My Skin by George Lamming, Ecological Imperialism by Alfred W. Crosby, Insurrecto by Gina Apostol, Exterminate All the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist, and Solito by Javier Zamora.

I’ve wanted to …