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    An Incomplete Reading List for an American Citizen
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Nov 4, 2020
    • 8 min

    An Incomplete Reading List for an American Citizen

    While I and many people I know, in recent literature and in real life, still refer to the presidential election of 2016 as The Election™,...
    What you Need To Know About Voting and Why
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Nov 3, 2020
    • 17 min

    What you Need To Know About Voting and Why

    I have this shirt (thank you, Out of Print) that says “Let’s Get Political” on the front with the “lit” in political emphasized, and on t...
    Friday Book Debrief vol 47
    Admin
    • Oct 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    Friday Book Debrief vol 47

    This week; Emma Jane Unsworth, Rumaan Alam, Marina Tsvetaeva & Angela Livingstone, Melissa Grace, Maria Semple, and James McBride.
    Branwell by Douglas A. Martin
    Maggie Briana Chidester
    • Oct 27, 2020
    • 3 min

    Branwell by Douglas A. Martin

    I know jackshit about the Brontë family. I was an angsty teen who hated being told what to do, and reading old classics in Humanities and...
    Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza
    Marian Perales
    • Oct 26, 2020
    • 5 min

    Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza

    Written by MacArthur Foundation fellow Cristina Rivera Garza, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country is an astute compendium of essa...
    Friday Book Debrief vol 46
    Admin
    • Oct 23, 2020
    • 4 min

    Friday Book Debrief vol 46

    Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...
    Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
    Courtney Dyer
    • Oct 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

    A modern gothic novel for the current generation of readers who are always looking for another queer icon. Full of spooky sapphic romance...
    Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter
    Cecilia Beard
    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 4 min

    Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter

    Evangelical Christianity as Fantasy (?) in Emily Carpenter’s Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters The not-quite sequel to Emily Carpenter’s posi...
    Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa
    Maggie Briana Chidester
    • Oct 19, 2020
    • 6 min

    Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa

    Following Emmy award-winning journalist and long-time anchor or NPR’s Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa from her childhood to present day
    Friday Book Debrief Vol 45
    Admin
    • Oct 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    Friday Book Debrief Vol 45

    Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...
    Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with Books
    Jessica Maria
    • Oct 16, 2020
    • 8 min

    Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with Books

    As we come to the close of Latinx Heritage Month (Sep 15 - Oct 15), I’m reflecting on what books I’ve read so far this year that are Lati...
    In Conversation with Lane Moore
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Oct 14, 2020
    • 5 min

    In Conversation with Lane Moore

    How to Be Alone is one of those books that was so nice I read it twice. I’m not prone to rereads and have only picked up the same book mo...
    How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t by Lane Moore
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Oct 13, 2020
    • 23 min

    How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t by Lane Moore

    “What is a good family? Is it money? Because we had a lot of that for a little while, but my home life was anything but good. Is it havin...
    Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
    Courtney Dyer
    • Oct 12, 2020
    • 5 min

    Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

    This is one of the most important young adult books I have read in my short, but well-read life. As a huge admirer of When They See Us an...
    Friday Book Debrief Vol 44
    Admin
    • Oct 9, 2020
    • 3 min

    Friday Book Debrief Vol 44

    This week; Stephen King, Jean Kwok, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lisa Jewell, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Ernesto Sabato, Paulina Flores & more.
    The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser
    Courtney Dyer
    • Oct 7, 2020
    • 6 min

    The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser

    Everyone loves the chase, that’s what they say right? In his brilliant new novel The Hunted, Gabriel Bergmoser explores this in the most ...
    White Oleander by Janet Fitch
    Karla Mendez
    • Oct 6, 2020
    • 5 min

    White Oleander by Janet Fitch

    “I was ashamed of the idea that I could escape her, even of wanting to.” I watched White Oleander almost religiously in high school so I ...
    In Conversation with Bianca Marais
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Oct 5, 2020
    • 11 min

    In Conversation with Bianca Marais

    Bianca Marais is the author of two historical fiction novels both set in South Africa during periods of upheaval. I have been a fan since...
    If You Want To Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Oct 5, 2020
    • 9 min

    If You Want To Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais

    As a writer, I am more often reading to encounter wonderful prose than I am to be transported and/or entertained. My criteria is simple: ...
    Friday Book Debrief Vol 43
    Jessica Maria
    • Oct 3, 2020
    • 2 min

    Friday Book Debrief Vol 43

    Hilary Mantel, Anne Patchett, Georgina Lawton, Juli Delgado Lopera, Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Emily M Danforth, Sara Shepard & more.
    In Conversation with Madeleine Ryan
    Elaine Mead
    • Oct 1, 2020
    • 5 min

    In Conversation with Madeleine Ryan

    Madeleine Ryan is a writer and actor who has written movingly about her experiences as an autistic woman for Vice and Lenny, among other ...
    A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan
    Courtney Dyer
    • Sep 30, 2020
    • 5 min

    A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan

    A Room Called Earth felt like a perfect summer’s evening. You’ve spent the day at the beach, it’s been sweaty and salty but you’ve soaked...
    Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel
    Maggie Briana Chidester
    • Sep 29, 2020
    • 6 min

    Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel

    TW: sex, sexual assault “Woah, are you okay?” or a discombobulated rearranging of those words are what I remember most about the night I ...
    A Fish Growing Lungs By Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
    Karla Mendez
    • Sep 28, 2020
    • 4 min

    A Fish Growing Lungs By Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn

    “But, goddamn, growing up sure can look like madness.”
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