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Recommended Reading: Out of the Girls’ Room and Into the Night, by Thisbe Nissen
Like William Adama, I am not a loaner of books. A giver of books, surely, but a loaner, no. When I hand over a book, I assume it’s gone forever, and if I really like it, I pick up a new copy for...
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Recommended Reading: Music for Wartime, by Rebecca Makkai
Last year I read and loved Rebecca Makkai’s novel The Hundred-year House (Ms. Makkai was kind enough to agree to an interview, too), and so I was delighted to read that a collection of her short...
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Recommended Reading: Contents Under Pressure, by Ellen Prentiss Campbell
A woman facing an unplanned pregnancy while struggling with her relationship with her own parents; a marine biologist who desperately wishes to become a fish; an older woman bidding her beloved country...
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5 Reasons to Read: Heart Attack Watch, by Alyson Foster
Alyson Foster’s Heart Attack Watch* is a slim book of seven short stories packed with tension. I admired the book very much, so in lieu of a traditional review (always tricky with short story...
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Recommended Reading: We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams
Clare Beams’s story collection We Show What We Have Learned* is gleefully good reading—and, as the cover suggests, mighty creepy too. I mean that in the best possible way. Horror isn’t my cup of tea,...
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Last Fortnight’s Reading: April 23-May 6
Looking for the Gulf Motel, by Richard Blanco: I read most of these poems out loud, in the car with my family on the way to my grandfather’s funeral, and was surprised to find myself tearing up a bit....
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Recommended Reading: The Mountain, by Paul Yoon
I have read and loved Paul Yoon’s previous books, the short novel The Snow Hunters and Once the Shore, a collection of short stories. The Mountain*, a collection of six exquisite stories, is a gorgeous...
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