Today's #WaferThinBook (Last for #1970Club): Maximum Security Ward by Ramon Guthrie (142p.)
A neglected major American poem, written after Guthrie's time in intensive care as a cancer patient. Angry, funny, and lyrical in turns.

Today's #WaferThinBook (#1970Club): The Honeyman Festival by Marian Engel (131p.)
The long night of Minn, 7½ months pregnant, in a ramshackle old house with hippies in the attic, sleeping kids upstairs, and a post-film festival cocktail party underway. Funny, crazy, and so wise.

Today's #WaferThinBook (#1970Club): Up the Sandbox by Anne Richardson Roiphe (155p.)
On the surface, Margaret is a dutiful wife, busy with the apartment and looking after two children. In her fantasies, she interviews Castro, observes combat in Vietnam, speaks to feminist rallies

Today's #WaferThinBook (#1970Club): The Hanging by Lillian Halegua (104p.)
On a Caribbean island, the chief of police falls in love with Adelia, a woman convicted of burning her husband alive, in the last few days before her execution. The third of Halegua's wafer-thin novels.

Today's #WaferThinBook (#1970Club): Destroy, She Said by Marguerite Duras, tr. Barbara Bray (133p.)
Perhaps the nouveau roman-est of Duras's novels, an abstract tale of a woman in a hotel (or sanitorium?) and her lovers. Duras wrote & directed the film version of the same name.

Today's #WaferThinBook (#1970Club): Single File by Norm Fruchter (177p.)
Why did a poor white man kill a poor black woman in NYC? Fruchter constructs a mystery and its sad solution out of the bits and pieces in a social worker's file on the case. Innovative in its structure.

Today's #WaferThinBook (#1970Club): Many Thing You No Understand by Adaora Lily Ulasi
From what I can find, this satire written substantially in pidgin English may be the first detective story written by a Nigerian. Ulasi's five novels are all now long out of print.

Today's #WaferThinBook (#1970Club): The Other Hollywood by Edward Thorpe (171p.)
Thorpe wanders the back alleys and dive bars of Hollywood, recording the lives of people who hope that success will hit them like an out-of-control car jumping a sidewalk. Evocative bleak tourism.

Today's #WaferThinBook (#1970Club): House Arrest by Helen Vlachos (158p.)
An angry yet occasionally hilarious account of newspaper editor Vlachos's confinement and escape after she refused to cooperate with authorities following the 1967 colonels' coup in Greece.

Today's #WaferThinBook (#1970Club): Julia and the Bazooka by Anna Kavan (157p.)
An almost unbearably intense collection of autobiographical stories. Julia's bazooka is the syringe supplying the heroin to which Kavan was addicted through most of her adult life. Grim but inventive.