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Karla Mendez
- May 29, 2020
- 5 min
Alligator & Other Stories by Dima Alzayat
If I were to skim through the pages of Alligator with no prior knowledge that every story was written by the same person, I would think each one written by someone different. Dima Alzayat’s prose changes with each story, allowing the theme of the story to guide. She tackles race, violence, childhood, and ritual. Although fictional, every story pulls from scenarios we may see on the cover of newspapers or as a hashtag on social media, as well as from actual moments in history.
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- Mar 28, 2020
- 31 min
TBS Roundtable: MY DARK VANESSA
Welcome to the first roundtable between The Book Slut writers. Think of this as a book club meeting, recorded. Except in these times we decided to exchange words in a shared document. We had all read My Dark Vanessa recently, or not so recently, and since its such a talked-about book, we wanted to talk about it. Below, some questions were posed between six TBS writers and an anonymous contributor, like we were all sitting around a table. The spoilers ABOUND, so only continue
Jessica Maria
- Mar 27, 2020
- 15 min
Excavation, My Dark Vanessa, and the Power of Who Tells Our Stories
A few weeks ago I was eating dinner with a large group of friends and acquaintances, and the woman next to me asked what I was currently reading. When I said My Dark Vanessa, another woman who overheard turned around and excitedly started talking about how much she loved the book. The woman I was talking to, who works at a lifestyle magazine, remarked that she’d just had a copy placed on her desk, recommended from an editor. This was two weeks before the book’s U.S. release d
Jessica Riches
- Dec 30, 2019
- 3 min
Jessica's Best Books of 2019
I had a Top 8 friends on MySpace and now I have a top 8 books of the year. If the generational shoe fits, as they say… The Book That Made Me Cringe My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams If it was at all physically possible, I would have read this in the gaps between my fingers. The true story of the ‘fake heiress’ who took New York by storm, written from the perspective of a friend she scammed. I both couldn’t believe she fell for it, bu
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