Luster, Gold Fame Citrus, The Secret History, Hummingbird Salamander, plus some re-reads and other minutiae.
Category: Fiction
Reading Roundup: June 2021
Dune, Real Life, And I Do Not Forgive You, To Say Nothing of the Dog, plus a smattering of links and some of my own writing.
Reading Roundup: May 2021
The Starless Sea, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, If I Had Your Face, Braiding Sweetgrass, and assorted books and culture links.
My favorite books about grown-up people
Today, FOR NO REASON AT ALL: a list of books about middle-aged people with middle-aged problems.
Reading Roundup: April 2021
Something That May Shock and Discredit You, Gilead, Godshot, The Mirror and the Light, a couple of rereads, and a smattering of stories and poems.
Reading Roundup: March 2021
I spent the first three weeks of the month in an intensive writing creative nonfiction workshop, and read a few pieces of flash every day to discuss. The second spring term started in the middle of that--I'm taking fiction writing this semester. These are some of the short pieces we read in those courses that… Continue reading Reading Roundup: March 2021