what issue 007 contributors have been reading

in preparation for the launch of issue 007, we asked our contributors to send us their current reading list, what inspired their piece and what their favorite place to read is. for now, we’ll give you the booklist to end all booklists - everything from post-nuclear apocalypses to wholesome stories of children against the machine. no matter what you’re into, you’ll find your next read here (at least until mnemotope 007 comes out, and then you’ll find your new favourite story!)

sienna ní ríordáin

instagram: siennaniriordain

reading: ‘ulysses’ by james joyce, ‘the living stone & goose of hermogenes’ by ithell colquhoun, ‘the passion according to g.h’ by clarice lispector

tianyu jiang

instagram: tiianyu_j

reading: ‘short cuts’ by raymond carver, ‘the architecture of loneliness’ edited by mieke bal

alicja wawryn

instagram: alicja.wawryn

reading: fragments of maladic discourse and ‘satantango’ by lászló krasznahorkai

eliott rose

instagram: el.iott

reading: some comfort reads - ‘danny the champion of the world’ by roald dahl, ‘the unbearable lightness of being’ by milan kundera, and a new one: ‘malatesta: life and ideas’ by errico malatesta

lander govaerts

instagram: lander.govaerts

reading: ‘op een andere planeet kunnen ze me redden’ by lieke marsman, ‘de kapellekensbaan’ by louis paul boon, ‘love me tender’ by constance debré

milo sharafeddine

instagram: oldfriendinc

reading: ‘a memory for forgetfulness’ by mahmoud darwish, ‘digital folklore’ by dragan espenschied and olia lialina, and ‘interview with the vampire’ by anne rice

inès heddar

instagram: labelli9

reading: ‘le travail des images, conversations avec andréa soto calderon’ by jacques rancière

franky cannon

instagram: frankyfrancescannon

reading: ‘forest euphoria’ by patricia kaishian (forthcoming this may)

phèdre barbas

instagram: erdehp

reading: ‘rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution’ by david harvey, but i am reading it really slowly so it has been cut so far by pieces by vernon subutex, ‘2’ by virginie despentes and ‘the life list’ by lori nelson spielman

darcey elizabeth youngman

instagram: creativedarcey

reading: ‘her body and other parties’ by carmen maria machado, ‘checkout 19’ by claire-louise bennett

aleksandra fixl

instagram: alexafixl

reading: ‘oval’ by elvia wilk, ‘terminal architecture’ by martin pawley, ‘poor but sexy’ by agata pyzik

benjamin morrison

instagram: benj_morrison

reading: ‘in memory of memory’ by maria stepanova, ‘the return’ by hisham matar, ‘the road’ by cormac mccarthy

iseult ní aodhagáin

instagram: iseultniaodhagain

reading: ‘sad havoc among the birds’ by d s maolalai

eoban tomlin

instagram: lem0n_cardboard

reading: ‘a manual for cleaning women’ by lucia berlin

martyna flisiak

reading: ‘august blue’ by deborah levy, ‘martyr!’ by kaveh akbar, ‘a month in sienna’ by hisham matar

lilian c. scheuer

instagram: lilian.c.scheuer

reading: ‘my neighbor totoro’ by tsugiko kubo

smilla sundén pettersson

instagram: smillapostscriptum

reading: lots of books on zombies, postcolonialism and medicine for my masters

brandon chow

instagram: blaaakonst

reading: mostly short form essays

pascal burgers

instagram: pascalburgers

reading: ‘boy's life’ by robert r. mccammon, ‘the road’ by cormac mccarthy, ‘the goldfinch’ by donna tartt, ‘the city of mist’ by carlos ruiz zafon, ‘the whalebone theater’ by joanna quinn, ‘1Q84’ by haruki murakami

julia s

reading: ‘love me tender’ by constance debré, ‘on solitude’ by michel de montaigne, ‘the crisis of narration’ by byung-chul han, ‘perfection’ by vincenzo latronico, ‘painter to the king’ by amy sackville

emily vierthaler

instagram: emvierthaler

reading: ‘shantaram’ by gregory david roberts, ‘a poetry handbook’ by mary oliver, ‘the seven habits of highly effective people’ by steven r. covey

hazel müllers

instagram: itshazelnow_

reading: ‘the simulacra’ by philip k. dick, ‘the honorable schoolboy’ by john le carré, ‘the postman always rings twice’ by james m. cain

sirah haris

instagram: sirahharis.art

reading: nothing i am a fraud

skyler joy

instagram: scuba.joy

reading: ‘ice’ by anna kavan

zehra abedi

reading: ‘the trial’ by franz kafka, ‘a room of one's own’ by virginia woolf

derbhla mcdermott

instagram: derbhla.ie

reading: ‘the palestine laboratory’ by antony loewenstein

xavier ramos

instagram: xavierjramos

reading: ‘underworld’ by don delillo, ‘the white book’ by han kang

puck van der poel

reading: ‘madonna in a fur coat’ by sabahattin ali, ‘too loud a solitude’ by bohumil hrabal

sabriaya shipley

instagram: ubuntusab and somewherebetweengodmammy

reading: ‘we will rest’ by tricia hersey, ‘a few rules for predicting the future - an essay’ by octavia e butler with art by manzel bowman, ‘zami - a new spelling of my name’ by audre lorde

martha bird

instagram: marthabird_

reading: ‘ava’ by carole maso, ‘a cook's tour’ by anthony bourdain

sorcha lynch

instagram: sorcha_lynch

reading: a lot of essays, substacks, and other literary magazines like ‘holy show’

mila narjollet guilloux

instagram: narjmi

reading: ‘giovanni's room’ by james baldwin, ‘apocalypse bébé’ by viginie despentes

clíona malin

instagram: clionama

reading: ‘modern nature’ by derek jarman

nathan a s armstrong

instagram: nathanaldrinsaganarmstrong

reading: ‘the great gatsby ’ by f. scott fitzgerald

james mansfield

instagram: _prof_james

reading: ‘a month in the country’ by j l carr

jacob lambrecht

instagram: jacobl.cht

reading: 'i am a legend' by richard matheson

frances

reading: ‘the name of the rose’ by umberto eco

tän pi

instagram: faerdsel

reading: ‘la muraille de chine’ by franz kafka

naz cuguoglu

instagram: ncuguoglu

reading: ‘raving’ by mckenzie wark

akiko neumann

instagram: _akiko1

reading: ‘okinawa’ by susumu higa, ‘the door’ by magda szabó

charlie jermyn

instagram: ciaolemagne

reading: ‘the prelude’ by william wordsworth, ‘hamnet’ by maggie o'farrell, ‘camera obscura’ by roland barthes

david farrow

instagram: certain_lives

reading: ‘alien daughters walk into the sun’ by jackie wang, ‘love in a fucked up world’ by dean spade, ‘73 poems’ by e. e. cummings