What I’ve Been Reading This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Two books that I was super excited for. One a re-read, one an AWP 2024 purchase. Two of the better-titled books you\u2019ll ever see. And yet, two books that didn\u2019t quite sing to me. I always wonder if this is a personal failing, like maybe I wasn\u2019t in the right frame of mind or something. Maybe I didn\u2019t read closely enough, generously enough. Sometimes, though, it\u2019s just like that. As always with this blog, take my recommendation for what you will. I\u2019m talking, of course, about 100 Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses<\/em> and Everyday Psycho Killers<\/em> by Lucy Corin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 100 Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses<\/em> by Lucy Corin:<\/strong> structurally, a very cool book. We get three longer short stories, then ~100 pages of flash fiction. Everything is, loosely, an apocalypse of some sort. These stories are opaque, very language-driven stories, and they wander and meander from thing to thing and then add up to something greater than the sum of the parts. In theory, anyway. If it sounds like I\u2019m describing how poems work, you\u2019re not quite wrong. For whatever reason, though, I didn\u2019t feel like I had enough \u201ccenter\u201d to hold onto. Even if the apocalyptic instruction from the title. It was not unlike listening to real out there prog rock or free jazz\u2014usually I am down for this type of stuff, but this book just didn\u2019t do it for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyday Psycho Killers<\/em> by Lucy Corin:<\/strong> a novel, or a linked collection of stories? Again, I really dig the structural ambiguity. It\u2019s almost a Bildungsroman, as it features the narrator navigating a childhood full of the kind monsters you find northern Florida. Not the fun kind, though\u2014the racist and misogynistic and queerphobic kind. This isn\u2019t normally the kind of thing that would turn me off from a book, but I felt like it was sort of a catalog of casually awful things without an answer to \u201cand why are we reading all this.\u201d R-words and n-words are tossed around casually (mostly by characters). I\u2019m not one to throw away a book because of a few verboten words, and I definitely remember How People Talked In 2004, but I didn\u2019t really feel like the book was guiding me to some new understanding via a path of slurs. Look, maybe these books would be more interesting to you. It\u2019s possible I had a shitty couple weeks *beyond the page* and thus couldn\u2019t get into these. But idk dude. Wasn\u2019t for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LINKS!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Something to listen to while you browse? Let’s close out Women’s History Month with my favorite Chaka Khan & Rufus song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"two](\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/79597811638__3BEBC989-B45A-46C5-BDFD-5C7B981C6903-1024x768.jpg\")