A Year in Reading: Rene Denfeld
The best years are the ones where I read as much as I write, so I am wrapped in a delicious swirl of story. Here are just a few of the good books I read.
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A Year in Reading: Bill Morris
I grew suspicious Isenberg was writing a cleverly coded takedown of Trump, but I realized that was unlikely because the book was published five months before the 2016 election.
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A Year in Reading: Matt Seidel
Three other works that stuck with me this year involved men in trouble, one farcical take on contemporary society and two sly, metaliterary comedies.
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A Year in Reading: Hannah Gersen
I think this “strange thing” is what must happen to all of us if we wish to address the environmental crisis. We need to get closer to plants and animals, to remember that we are all living on this planet together.
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A Year in Reading: Edan Lepucki
I’ve got to be reading something, anything, at all times. I’m like a slobbery Golden Retriever at its dog bowl. More, more, more!
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A Year in Reading: Ed Simon
This year, with the logic that our social reality is as disturbing and surrealistic as any fabulist gothic, I’ve decided to make an exception for nonfiction by including books on politics.
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A Year in Reading: Il’ja Rákoš
I, like you, definitely don’t need to be made more susceptible to the predations of the truly sinister agents of corruption that are at work all around us.
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A Year in Reading: Kaulie Lewis
Being a part of it has meant admitting to about a dozen things simultaneously, chiefly that I’ve struggled to hold the room in my life for reading.
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A Year in Reading: Grace Loh Prasad
What a difference it would make if all Americans could imagine what it’s like to be a woman of color.
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