This week's theme is fictional characters who are destined to write autobiographical fiction What I read this week Whistler by Anne Patchett So damn charming, as always. Whistler is a deceptively simple story of family love told with absolute precision, just as Tom Lake was previously. How good
**More patience from you required because I'm definitely not my sharpest this week: After so much water leaked into our apartment last weekend, we found out that we have to completely pack up our apartment and move out while gut renovations happen, timing unknown – somewhere between four and
This week's theme is affordable housing **Please bear with me this week. On Sunday the sprinkler system in our building went on the fritz, and we had water coming in everywhere. Thankfully most of the books have made it (a few galleys had to go) but everything is
This week's theme is mighty triumvirates and/or friend throuples What I read this week My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy No one does it like Deborah Levy on a sentence level, whether she's writing a novel or a memoir
The theme of the week is crossing boundaries and borders; it's so on the nose that I'm a little ashamed What I read this week No God But Us by Bobuq Sayed "Istanbul is where the people displaced by all the wars end up. They&
The theme of the week is "Every piece of writing is a wager about how things may or may not hold together, on the page and off." – Emily Labarge What I read this week Dog Days by Emily Labarge I love books like this: a big fat blend
This week's theme is somebody's watching you. What I read this week Men Like Ours by Bindu Bansinath What a propulsive and assured debut novel! I know Bindu a little bit from her work at The Cut, and we've been to a few book
This week's theme is inheritances. What I read this week American Rambler by Isaac Fitzgerald It's always illuminating to read a friend's personal writing about a time period when you sort of knew what was going on but not exactly. Sporadic texts are not
This week's theme is the excesses of girlhood What I read this week Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez It's been a long time since a novel has captured a particular time and a place with such love and precision of feeling, if not fact.
The theme this week is sequels you can enjoy even if you haven't read the previous novel. What I read this week A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper My friend Sarah Weinman gave Jordan Harper's new novel a rave in the New York Times, calling A
This week's theme is college in the late 1990s was wild. I can attest. What I read this week Transcription by Ben Lerner I'm a Ben Lerner completist. I am always intrigued by his work, as long as I can block out the sounds of his
The theme of the week is hurt people hurt people. What I read this week Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple I never thought that in my adult life I would spend so much time thinking about what it means