A Year in Reading: Jesse Paddock

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I’d gotten what I’d wanted—a room full of books and time enough to read them—but at a cost.
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The Year in Reading: Mohamed Asem

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Days went by this way, with my brain growing comfortably numb.
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A Year in Reading: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Little did I know that, in September, just two weeks after the release of my novel, I’d be sitting in my home office in Colorado giving a reading in front of a computer, and that a completely naked eighty-year-old man would appear on the screen.

A Year in Reading: Kevin Young

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In the process of working on a new nonfiction book, I have also turned a lot to biography, often of figures a century ago who endured times not unlike ours that led us into the Roaring Twenties.
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A Year in Reading: Christopher Gonzalez

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In that time, I read a deluge of emails from HR and the communications team at my job on working remotely, taking sick days, using PTO, how to notify HR if you’ve been exposed to the virus or if you’ve traveled to a state where the number of cases were greater than New York’s, and multiple surveys about the aforementioned emails, asking if we were happy or distressed.
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A Year in Reading: Lillian Li

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Thanks, Art Garfunkel!
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A Year in Reading: Natalie Bakopoulos

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I felt so wrecked, so torn apart—yet somehow, miraculously, also shored back up.
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A Year in Reading: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

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At the beginning of August, the United States Postal Service delivered a box of books I had shipped when I moved from Iowa City to Boston with only five books inside and thirty seven books missing.
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A Year in Reading: Diane Cook

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I had a two-year-old to entertain in lockdown, a book to launch and promote, a baby to grow and give birth to during the pandemic, and then a dark quarry lake of post-partum depression to drown in
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Must-Read Poetry: December 2020

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Finish out the year strong with notable poetry books by Thulani Davis, James Matthew Wilson, Michael Longley, and Anne Marie Macari.
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A Year in Reading: Brontez Purnell

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Don’t read this shit unless you like being really really really triggered.
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A Year in Reading: K-Ming Chang

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I had to put the book down (and sometimes fling it at something, though not too hard since it’s a library book) because I was so troubled by the stories in the best way possible. It made me want to destroy the world and imagine it anew.
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A Year in Reading: Carolyn Quimby

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It’s not an exaggeration to say I’ve thought about that novel nearly every day since I finished it. I feel lucky to have read it—and that’s about as good as it gets these days.
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A Year in Reading: Adam O’Fallon Price

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The Undine Spraggs have always been among us, little mutant strands of our fragile national DNA waiting to spread, despoil, and destroy.
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A Year in Reading: Jianan Qian

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My spiritual crisis this year was not triggered by the pandemic but by the trees in St. Louis.
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A Year in Reading: Matt Seidel

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I decided to map out new avenues for autofiction writers to explore and new variants for autofiction critics to classify: a handy manual that doubles as my year in reading.
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