Robert Lopez

Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, and a story collection, Asunder. He has taught and/or teaches at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, William Paterson University.


what are you reading now

How They Were Found, Matt Bell

From Old Notebooks, Evan Lavender-Smith

classic you’ve been meaning to read

Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes

last book you finished in a single sitting

Not sure I've ever done this, but if I have it would've been Reader's Block by David Markson.

book you borrowed and never returned

Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

if you could subscribe to only one literary journal

Unsaid.

best thing you’ve read online recently

"There Is This Woman Who Gets Me What I Need" by Andrew Richmond in The Collagist.

most anticipated upcoming release

The selected and new Barry Hannah.

recommended reading list:

Books I Might Teach Next Semester

- Kissed By by Alexandra Chasin

- Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler

- Molloy by Samuel Beckett

- Dear Everybody by Michael Kimball

- Bob, or Man on Boat by Peter Markus

- Michael Martone by Michael Martone

- In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass

- Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison