Split Lip FAM Recommended Reading

The Essential Split Lip Summer Reading List

Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice, EIC, Split Lip Magazine
American Innovations, Rivka Galchen (unbreakable tie with) Redployment, Phil Klay
Fortune Smiles, Adam Johnson

Tyler Barton
Homesick for Another World, Ottessa Moshfegh
Portrait of the Alcoholic, Kaveh Akbar 

Gayle Brandeis
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay 
Les Guerilleres, Monica Wittig (translated from the French by David Le Vay)

Marianne Chan, Poetry Editor, Split Lip Magazine
Split, Cathy Linh Che
Please, Jericho Brown

Elisha Ebling
Battleborn, Claire Vaye Watkins
The Bricks that Built the Houses, Kate Tempest

Shasta Grant
Half Wild, Robin MacArthur
The Mothers, Brit Bennett

Amorak Huey
Whereas, Layli Long Soldier
Look, Solmaz Sharif

Tom Hunley
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Drone String, Sherry Cook-Stanforth 

Michele Johnson
Bluets, Maggie Nelson
Tenth of December, George Saunders

Maureen Langloss, Flash Fiction Editor, Split Lip Magazine
Things that Are, Amy Leach
Sweet Talk, Stephanie Vaughn

Devin Kelly
The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai
The Homeboy Songs, Robert Lashley

Cheryl Kidder
Battleborn, Claire Vaye Watkins
The Way We Weren't, Jill Talbot

Melissa Matthewson
Little Labors, Rivka Galchen
Land of Little Rain, Mary Austin

Jon McConnell, Fiction Editor, Split Lip Magazine
Beautiful Soon Enough, Margo Berdeshevsky
Counternarratives, John Keene

Michael Meyerhofer
Won't Be Long: poems short, poems shorter, poems shortest,  J.R. Solonche
American Ephemeral, Justin Hamm

Amanda Miska, Publisher, Split Lip Press [Former EIC, Split Lip Magazine]
Person/a, Elizabeth Ellen
Abandon Me, Melissa Febos

Mike Nagel
The Correspondence, J. D. Daniels
A History of Bombing, Sven Lindqvist 

Diane Payne
The Gustav Sonata, Rose Tremain
Swing Time, Zadie Smith

Becky Robison, Editorial Assistant, Split Lip Magazine/Split Lip Press
That's Not a Feeling, Dan Josefson
Best Worst American, Juan Martinez 

Amy Rossi, Web Editor, Split Lip Magazine
All Grown Up, Jami Attenberg
The Bed Moved, Rebecca Schiff

Ray Shea, Memoir Editor, Split Lip Magazine
The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship, Paul Lisicky
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live, Peter Orner

Amy Silverberg
The Girls from Corona Del Mar, Rufi Thorpe
How To Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Danielle Evans
Ill Will, Dan Chaon

Matthew Sirois
A Field Guide to Murder and Fly Fishing, Tim Weed (Green Writers Press)
The Things of Man, Vince Wheeler  (Belle Lutte Press) 

Jill Talbot
Lost Wax: Essays and Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays, Jericho Parms
Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays, edited by Marcia Aldrich 

Kaj Tanaka
Chateau Wichman, Ben Pease (Big Lucks)
Angle of Yaw, Ben Lerner (Copper Canyon Press) 

Cathy Ulrich
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, Bryan Burrough
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, Mick LaSalle

Kara Vernor
Days, Mary Robison
The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Donna Vorreyer
The Pillow Book, Suzanne Buffam
Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman

Chris Wolford, Music Editor, Split Lip Magazine
Sweet Talk, Stephanie Vaughn
The White Album, Joan Didion

Marléne Zadig
What Becomes Us, Micah Perks (Outpost19)
Not Dark Yet, Berit Ellingsen (Two Dollar Radio)