Who recommends it
- Kyle “Guante” Tran MyhreInterview
It’s always fun to share the wealth, so to speak, and give some recommendations. The last three books that really moved me were A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, and Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith.
- The Best Books Of 2017Reading list
- Lawrence GrobelInterview
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre; How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton; B and Me by J.C. Hallman; Sextet by John Malcolm Brinnin; Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough by John Ross; A Century of Sonnets by James A. Michener; Chronicles by Bob Dylan; No Laughing Matter by Joseph Heller and Speed Vogel…
- Gina WohlsdorfInterview
I need to do a bunch of research on art history, so I’m thinking I’ll take a class. That’ll have its share of texts, I’m sure. Fiction-wise, I finally acquired a Haruki Murakami that a buddy of mine recommended a million years ago (Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World), so that’s high in the pile. So is…
- Celebrating Black LiteratureArticle
Another rising star in Black literature is Yaa Gyasi. She is perhaps best known for her bestselling book Homegoing, which was selected as one of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year. Homegoing is a powerful and moving novel that follows the parallel lives of two half-sisters born into different villages in 18th century…
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