february 2023 – good to read

Tai Shani / Amy Hale
From the cellular to the galactic, via Paleolithic cave markings to the trace impressions left by drone photography on our mind’s eye, incorporating dancing plagues, communist psychedelic witches, hyper-sexual fungi, chthonic descents, and skyward ascents, The Neon Hieroglyph weaves together a series of painterly and poetic considerations on a feminized history of the rye fungus ergot, the chemical basis of LSD.
Strange Attractor Press

Andrew Brobyn
Equal parts hilarious and terrifying, Babble On is a psycho-philosophical memoir that tracks Brobyn as he navigates the consequences of his eccentric choices and struggles with profound ambivalence toward his own health and well-being. As his drug use and bipolar disorder spiral, his situation gets stranger and stranger, taking him from his university campus to strip clubs, psych wards, and the slammer. See an interview with the author here.
Dundurn Press

Bret Easton Ellis
Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city, The Shards is Ellis at his gripping, sly, suspenseful, haunting, and often darkly funny best.
Knopf

Alan Sanderson M.D.
Dr. Sanderson shares his extensive research on the afterlife, the survival of consciousness after physical death, and paranormal phenomena related to the spirit world. He explains his practice of psychiatric spirit release, centered on the spiritual and psychic aspects of emotional disturbance, and shares case studies complete with full accounts of treatment sessions. A comprehensive examination of spirit existence and the survival of consciousness after death.
Park Street Press

Ren Hurst
Looking at the domestication of humanity, the author explains the nature of trauma and disconnection from the perspective of emotional development. She unveils thirteen principles of unconditional love for deprogramming yourself, healing the trauma of domestication, and restoring deep connection to inner guidance, your wild soul, and, ultimately, freedom. Ren Hurst shows how, an authentic relationship between human and animal – or between two people – is possible.
Simon & Schuster