Tag: Stuff Worth Reading

  • 2022 was a slow and quiet reading year for me — which is probably why I forgot to post about it! But slow and quiet doesn’t mean bad. In fact, I only read a handful of books, but most were excellent. My faves of 2022: GOOD TALK: A graphic memoir with bounce that belies its…

  • It has been months since I read this book, but I can still vividly recall so much of it. Beautifully written without being overwrought, the story is full of insights about family, love, immigration, aging, and more. My copy is littered with Post-It flags marking favorite passages.  This book also happens to be written by…

  • “Writing What We Run From” by Laura Roque Currently, my people and perverse culture, our hybrid language and history, is all I can seem to write about, and are the stories I think I should be telling. This isn’t a claim that writers should stick to their own parts of the world, but that there’s…

  • “Writers Aren’t Who They Think They Are” by David Ebenbach What the novel says, I think, is that any single event is the result of many, many things. That’s why you have the hundreds of pages leading up to the climax; those pages suggest the philosophy that you can only fully understand that climax and…

  • WORK “Mother Courage” by James Wood In Offill’s original book: a young mother and ambitious writer, committed to her daughter and to her writing, tries to find energy and ambition for both; she must claim for writing the authority of necessity that usually attends parenthood. Art-making, unlike the great bourgeois panoply of family life, comes…