A Year in Reading: Sophia Stewart
Heterosexuality—what is it good for? This was the question that propelled much of my reading in 2023.
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A Year in Reading: Lilly Dancyger
This year marked a huge and welcome shift in my reading habits: I started reading fiction again, for the first time in thirteen years.
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A Year in Reading: Elvia Wilk
You have to pick the book up, and you also have to know when to put it down and go do something else with your hands.
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A Year in Reading: Ruth Madievsky
This year, I mostly read books by my contemporaries. I wanted to luxuriate with my peers and support their work—we fucking did it.
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A Year in Reading: Madeleine Schwartz
At the beginning of this year I started a new magazine, which it turns out is a bit like hosting a continuous dinner party in your brain.
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A Year in Reading: Iyana Jones
The end of the year typically marks a glory-filled time where I pat myself on the back for picking up a book in my off-hours.
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A Year in Reading: Erica Berry
Do you see that these paragraphs cannot encompass all the books I read, but rather suggest a certain logic of selection?
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A Year in Reading: Hilary Leichter
I keep a tiny notebook on my nightstand where I try to record my years in reading.
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A Year in Reading: Brian Dillon
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
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
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)
This was my year in reading, yes, but this was my year in living.
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A Year in Reading: Hannah Zeavin
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
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
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
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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