It’s the month of May. The month that celebrates that wonderful auxiliary verb we all love. It expresses possibility as well as the ability and capacity to do something. And with that in mind, may I introduce you to A.L. Kennedy. She is a writer, a comedian, and now she is a part of the Modern Authors Collection in Graduate Services. Three of her books are here now (So I Am Glad, Everything You Need, On Bullfighting) with more on the way in the coming months. After learning about being glad everything you need is bullfighting, may I suggest some other new titles for you to look into? The new one from UC Berkeley Emeritus professor Maxine Hong Kingston is ready to be read. A collection of Antonio Negri’s plays is here for your mind to perform. And if you really want to do some mental aerobics, there’s Hegel and Maurice Merleau-Ponty here to be your trainers. Add a little Ford Maddox Ford, Hanif Kureishi, Peter Matthiessen, and W.B. Yeats to the equation, and it looks like May may have the capicty to equal good days spent reading new books in Graduate Services. So gear up for getting down here to Graduate Services. You may like what you find.
Parade’s End Volume One: Some Do Not…by Ford Madox Ford edited by Max Saunders
Encyclopedia of the Phiosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part I: Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
On Bullfighting by A.L. Kennedy
So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy
I Love A Broad Margin To My Life by Maxine Hong Kingstone
Gabriel’s Gift by Hanif Kureishi
Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi
…isms: Understanding Art by Stephen Little
Are We There Yet?: A Zen Journey Through Space and TIme by Peter Matthiessen and Peter Cunningham
Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution by Peter Matthiessen
Institution and Passivity: Course Notes From The College de France (1954-1955) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Trilogy of Resistance by Antonio Negri
At the Hawk’s Well and The Cat and the Moon: Manuscript Materials (The Cornell Yeats) by W.B. Yeats edited by Andrew Parkin