Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Brian Dillon

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This year I have mostly been rereading writers who will seem embarrassingly predictable in a writer and reader born in 1969.
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A Year in Reading: Myriam Gurba

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Now that I’m free, I’m able to devote my time and labor to writing books that I hope help set others free.
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A Year in Reading: Ben Purkert

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I’m a poet who wrote a novel. I also teach an MFA class titled The Poet’s Novel. And so my bookshelf contains no shortage of—wait for it—novels written by poets.
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A Year in Reading: Morgan Talty (and Charlie Talty)

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This was my year in reading, yes, but this was my year in living.
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A Year in Reading: Hannah Zeavin

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Whatever bad luck I had hoped to leave in 2022 obviously followed me into the new year.
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A Year in Reading: McKenzie Wark

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In 2023, it was a lot of books connected one way or another to raving, transsexuality, and autofiction.
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A Year in Reading: Ryan Ruby

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In 2023, it seemed to me, there was an unusual amount of reflection on the state of contemporary criticism.
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A Year in Reading: Jennifer Croft

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What I have read the most, and over and over and over, is children’s literature, and more specifically, board books.
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A Year in Reading: Alexandra Tanner

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I had to really entice myself to read by gamifying the process, by reading several things at once, by allowing myself to spend time with books in an intentional way.
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A Year in Reading: Kukuwa Ashun

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I read extraordinary books outside of my nine-to-five and devoured these stories in the way I would consume french onion soup on a chilly day.
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A Year in Reading: Anna Biller

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I’m rereading all of the classics I read years ago, and catching up on a few stray ones that I missed.
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A Year in Reading: Andrew Leland

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In recent years, there’s been an explosion of writing by blind and other disabled people.
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A Year in Reading: Dan Sinykin

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I’ve been squatting in the firebombed (was it?) city of Bellona with Samuel Delany in spare pockets of time for what feels like years. (It’s been weeks.)
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A Year in Reading: Melissa Lozada-Oliva

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If you’re reading this, your new year's resolution is to look as hot as you can while you read. I believe in you.
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A Year in Reading: Erin Somers

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It's okay to make fun of books. They’re not a religion, after all. Only a pastime.
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A Year in Reading: Phillip Lopate

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My reading is unsystematic and all over the place.
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A Year in Reading: Christine Coulson

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I like books to feel like going to an art exhibition, an experience that consumes you in a single visit and then lingers.
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A Year in Reading: Athena Dixon

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I decided to make my year of reading much more focused on the fun, escapism, and curiosity I’d been missing in prior years.
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