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.
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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.
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).
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.
And Then We Set His Hair on Fire
I'm currently enjoying And Then We Set His Hair On Fire: Insights and Accidents from a Hall-of-Fame Career in Advertising, a funny, delightful read by Phil Dusenberry.
The Vagrants
I enjoyed Yiyun Li‘s The Vagrants, and am now tackling Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King & Other Stories.
Birnbaum’s reading list: Blake Bailey’s bios, Canadian writer Joseph Boyden, and more
I have read neither Richard Yates nor John Cheever's writings, but I have enjoyed Blake Bailey's bios--first of Yates and now John Cheever.
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
I'm currently reading Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, translated by Anne Carson, and thinking about theater and playwriting.
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth
More sloth stuff this month, including a very sweet picture book by Eric Carle called Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth