We asked MFA alumni publishing books this season what they’re reading, and what they'd recommend. Here's what you’ll currently find on Adam Honsinger’s bookshelf:
A total of eight CW MFA graduates are finalists for the Toronto Book Award this year, owing to the fact that they’ve all contributed writing to The Unpublished City (Book*hug), curated by Dionne Brand.
Ondjaki, chosen by The Guardian in 2012 as one of their "Top Five African Writers," is one of the most widely read younger writers in Africa. Born in 1977, he is the author of more than twenty books which have been published in more than a dozen languages. Ondjaki's latest novel, Transparent City, a wrenching, sometimes surreal and always deeply human portrait of his native city of Luanda, Angola, w
aisha of is began its development in 2017 as a solo dance piece for the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. After a limited spring 2018 run at Montreal's MAI, MFA grad—and recent Griffin Poetry Prize finalist—Aisha Sasha John brings her ever-evolving performance work to the eclectic SummerWorks festival in Toronto.