Skunk Cabbage Books

Join us Friday, October 3rd at 6:30 for Naomi Washer discussing her new book, Marginalia, with Deborah Shapiro.

Comprised of a decade’s worth of notes made in the margins of other writers’ books, collected and arranged into an original work, Marginalia accumulates into an essay that interrogates both its own form and its author’s sense of self.

Bookseller Mrittika says, “At once poetic and psychoanalytical, Washer’s fragmented curation of side notes keeps us hooked on the dialogue unfolding between past versions of herself”.

Airplane Mode, our bi-monthly subscription for books in translation, is back in September. This month, we’re visiting Kuwait and India. Check our linktree for details on how to join.

The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman, is a madcap satire following a bureaucrat in the book censor’s office, tasked with reading books to ensure nothing unfit makes it into print. However, the more he reads, the more he is drawn into the stories, their characters, and the outlaw librarians secretly preserving history and culture.

The International Booker Prize winning short story collection Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, includes stories were originally published between 1990 and 2023. They paint vivid, witty portraits of the lives of Muslim girls and women in South India and trace the ways Indian society has shifted over the last 30 years.