A Year in Reading: Thomas Beckwith

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All I wanted to feel this year was a sense of ambient doom, it seemed, and the books I’ll remember in the future are those that delivered, and then some.
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A Year in Reading: Lydia Kiesling

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Every book that I’ve managed to finish since we moved feels like it helped me regain my equilibrium in some crucial way.
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A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee

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Apparently books about racism and immigration are seriously back in demand. This prompted me to take a dip back in the current pool to see what’s new.
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A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne

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How is it that Don Winslow is not a household name?
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A Year in Reading: Anne Yoder

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I was nonplussed by the clarity of his name and my seeming lack of connection to it, and so I followed this thread to see where it led, if it did.
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A Year in Reading: Grace Talusan

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It wasn’t until I saw my husband almost trip multiple times as he tried to make his way through the obstacle course that I knew that I had a book problem.
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A Year in Reading: Sophia Shalmiyev

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Let us begin at the natural home of all the white-men-are-garbage controversies and go right to the crotch area.
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A Year in Reading: Tanaïs

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We can’t afford ignorance, but we do still need spaces to dream, to reimagine the world, to counter erasures of stories we deserve and need to know.
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A Year in Reading: Anne Serre

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It’s probably the only novel I’ve ever read that, though written by a man, feels from beginning to end as if it were written by a woman.
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A Year in Reading: Michael Zadoorian

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To make myself feel better, I tell myself that the books I do get around to reading are read well and deeply. This is, of course, bullshit.
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A Year in Reading: Paul Lisicky

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I think all of the books on my list say no, as if that no were an affirmation, and I’m sure that’s why I’ll keep going back to them.
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A Year in Reading: Fernando Flores

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I spent a lot of time sitting and staring in silence, filled with various forms of anxiety, and maybe talking out loud to myself.
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A Year in Reading: Jasmine Guillory

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I’m honored to blurb other authors and support them. But I’ve had to figure out techniques for myself so I can read and write and keep joy in my heart for both.
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A Year in Reading: Kate Petersen

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On a stolen afternoon in fall, we packed sandwiches and library books and headed up Bear Jaw trail. Stolen from emails, I mean.
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A Year in Reading: Andrew Martin

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...including that book of Don DeLillo short stories that I swear is climbing out of giveaway boxes and following us, Toy Story-style, across the country.
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A Year in Reading: Mike Isaac

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My crippling reliance on Amazon for innocuous items led me down a comment-reading hole in February. People have very strong views on toilet plungers.
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A Year in Reading: Nishant Batsha

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I’ve done this exactly once since my daughter was born. I ended up reading about infant dementia for an hour. I don’t recommend that article to anyone.
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A Year in Reading: Daniel Levin Becker

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This year, I read in twos. Maybe this is always happening and I just started noticing. I also have a brain that’s unrepentantly hungry for patterns, so who knows.
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