Our staff’s reading list for October includes books by Jhumpa Lahiri, Aimee Bender, Allan Gurganus, Lisa Fugard, Naomi Wolf, Jane Smiley, Bob Hicok, and other authors.
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What We’re Reading: October 2013
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged Allan Gurganus, Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Lethem, Julian Barnes, Naomi Wolf, Richard Powers
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Late Summer 2013 Reading List
Our staff’s late summer reading list includes titles from Masha Hamilton, Mark Kurlansky, Kate Zambreno, Tao Lin, Mary Ruefle, Matt Pine, Jesse Ball, Carol Shields, and more.
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged Carol Shields, Colum McCann, Eduardo Galeano, Jesse Ball, Kate Zambreno, Mark Kurlansky, Mary Ruefle, Masha Hamilton, Matt Pine, Tao Lin
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Our Spring 2013 Reading List
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged Amitav Ghosh, David Shields, Emily Rapp, Julia Alvarez, Ruth Ozeki
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Our 2012 Holiday Reading List
This month’s books include titles from Jared Diamond, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Laura Moriarty, Joe Bageant, Susannah Cahalan and many other unique voices.
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Laura Moriarty, The Baffler
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What We’re Electing to Read in November 2012
Books we’re reading this November include a Leonard Cohen biography by Sylvie Simmons, The Headmaster’s Wager by Vincent Lam, On Christian Contemplation by Thomas Merton, Both Flesh and Not by DFW, Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins, Best American Short Stories 2012, A Good Fall by Ha Jin, and many other titles.
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged David Foster Wallace, Don Winslow, Gunter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Jess Walter, Jim Harrison, Leonard Cohen, Lorrie Moore, Nick Flynn, Ron Rash
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Oktobookfest: What We’re Reading, October 2012
The Identity Theory Staff Reading List for this month includes books on Yoko Ono and Jack Kerouac, new efforts from Martin Amis and Naomi Wolf, the latest issue of Granta, and much more.
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged Alain de Botton, Granta, Jack Kerouac, Maria Flook, Martin Amis, Mia Fontaine, Michael Kimball, Naomi Wolf, Ron Rash
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The Identity Theory Staff’s Summer Reading List for 2012
Our staff’s summer reading list for 2012 includes Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, and The Great Leader by Jim Harrison.
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What We’re Reading: April 2012
April’s staff reading list includes Hemingway, Ron Rash, Vanessa Veselka, Gary Lutz, James Franco and more.
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Identity Theory Staff Reading: March 2012
The Identity Theory staff reading list for March 2012 includes new stuff by Dan Chaon, Don Lee, Laird Hunt and more.
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged Dan Chaon, Don Lee, Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Perry, William Faulkner
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January/February 2012 Reading List: Chronic City, Matterhorn, and The Obamas
I’m finishing up Lethem’s Chronic City and Hugh Barker/Yuval Taylor’s Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music.
December 2011 Reading List: Turtle Island, Michael Chabon, Percival Everett
Matt Borondy is reading two poetry books: Turtle Island by Gary Snyder and our music editor Anna-Lynne’s new one.
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged Gary Snyder, Michael Chabon, Percival Everett, Turtle Island
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November 2011 Reading List: Peter Matthiessen, Roberto Bolano, Lauren Oliver, Jonathan Franzen
Robert Birnbaum is reading The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano, The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco, Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville, and The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart.
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Egan, Major Jackson, Peter Matthiessen, Roberto Bolaño
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May 2011 Reading List: Micheal Crumney, John Sayles, Wilfred Santiago
A sampling of books we are reading this May…
What We’re Reading: August 2009
I’ve got the latest issues of American Short Fiction and One Story next to me on my couch, alongside James Hannaham’s God Says No and the new Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch (the latter two by Little, Brown).
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged Andre Dubus III, Blake Butler, Denis Johnson, Eduardo Galeano, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Nick Antosca
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The Invention of Everything Else
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt is a terrific, imaginative story of the great inventor Tessla and a chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker.
Also posted in What We're Reading Tagged Jonathan Safran Foer, Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else
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