A Year in Reading: Krys Malcolm Belc

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Two thousand twenty-one was a year of reading lonely people. I walked around a cold and gray and empty Philadelphia, embittered and lonely and feeling brattily like I was entitled to another life.
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A Year in Reading: Mateo Askaripour

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Looking back on it now, 2021 was a year that I learned what it meant to not just be a reader, or a writer, but also a literary citizen.
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A Year in Reading: Cecilia Rabess

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I read Lauren Oyler’s Twitter feed and her novel Fake Accounts, both of which were cutting and cryptic and precisely targeted.
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A Year in Reading: Ken Layne

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By taking on a uniform, you simultaneously quit thinking about clothes and force the world to deal with you on your own terms.
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A Year in Reading: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Sometimes you just happen to be reading the right book—maybe it doesn't happen as often as you'd like, but when it happens, oh my, it happens.

A Year in Reading: Sara Saljoughi

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I read with my usual gusto, but I read whatever I wanted, undeterred by worries of frivolity or trendiness, or falling behind, or reading the right (or wrong) authors.
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A Year in Reading: Imani Perry

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I read books about facing disaster and I read books about transformation and reimagination. This makes sense, I guess, given the history we’re currently living.
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A Year in Reading: Callum Angus

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I gravitate toward writers who have a "project," who are concerned with—and consumed by—the search for something, unraveling a knot of ideas.
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A Year in Reading: José Vadi

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Simply put, these are the stories I wish I read growing up in California.
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A Year in Reading: Iľja Rákoš

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As long as there are authors, translators, publishers large or small committed to the deliberate word deliberately committed to the page, and so many who still need those words on pages, legal or illegal, right, left, or center, we’ll find our feet again.
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A Year in Reading: Anne K. Yoder

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Reading Levy helped me envision a way of writing myself again into existence, of remaking a home and a life, to visualize it as the adventure I was thrust into.
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A Year in Reading: Sonya Chung

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I started 2021 distressed like everyone on the planet, but also coping with heartbreak. Enough, I decided. I’m tired. I picked up bell hooks, because I needed Feminism-with-a-capital-F
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A Year in Reading: Nick Moran

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Before this year, I typically read one book at a time. Now I alternate, and I find the trick is to switch from one kind to another: chip away at the long ones while flying through the shorts.
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A Year in Reading: Zoë Ruiz

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Reading about harm and abuse, reading about injustice and inequality, as fireworks caused my foster dog to curl up with fear in my bedroom closet, seemed an appropriate way to commemorate Independence Day in 2021.
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A Year in Reading: Hannah Gersen

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I read Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This in two sessions and wasn't tempted to look at my phone because reading it was like being on the Internet—but a highly refined, dreamy version.
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A Year in Reading: Kat Chow

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I turned in the final draft of Ghosts to my editor on Jan. 6, mired in a mildly-to-severely disassociated state while I watched news updates about the attacks at the U.S. Capitol, underway just miles away from where I live.
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A Year in Reading: Namrata Poddar

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In any week, I’m reading and re-reading some of my favorites, what follows is a list of books that offers no linear progression; it is clustered around obsessions that currently feed my reading life.
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A Year in Reading: Dan Kois

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While I was exploring new settings and inventing characters and working out the next thing, I read, almost exclusively, mass market paperbacks.
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