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A Year in Reading: Il’ja Rákoš

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I, like you, definitely don’t need to be made more susceptible to the predations of the truly sinister agents of corruption that are at work all around us.
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A Year in Reading: Kaulie Lewis

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Being a part of it has meant admitting to about a dozen things simultaneously, chiefly that I’ve struggled to hold the room in my life for reading.
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A Year in Reading: Grace Loh Prasad

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What a difference it would make if all Americans could imagine what it’s like to be a woman of color.
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A Year in Reading: T Kira Madden

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I let go of any book that lacked sincerity in 2019; I plan to maintain that rule. Still, I’ve never in my life felt more grateful to return to words at the beginning or end of my days.
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A Year in Reading: Beatrice Kilat

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By that I mean that he’s a little practical and a little dreamy, a little horny and a little precious, which is just how I like a person.
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A Year in Reading: John Lingan

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He described musicians as primordial forces borne from holler shacks, bereft steel towns, and Pentecostal villages, fated to carry earth-shaking messages and ultimately self-destruct.
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A Year in Reading: Chanelle Benz

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Beautiful books have been the balm to my blistering, sleep-deprived mind when I am parched by Twitter and the unrelenting, oppressive news cycle.
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A Year in Reading: Kate Zambreno

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I am at this point in my life where I find these lists voluptuous brags about time, which I have surely been party to in the past.
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A Year in Reading: Jennine Capó Crucet

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I first read it on an airplane, and by the time I was halfway through, I gave zero fucks about how much it made me cry and laugh and feel, much to the horror of the other people seated in my row.
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A Year in Reading: Osita Nwanevu

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We’re all floating along a never-ending stream of content, a reality that might have been fun to imagine 20 years ago but feels bleaker each passing day of this political era.
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A Year in Reading: Julia Phillips

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In this metaphor, the mattress is my life. The bowling ball is a bowling ball. It crashed down. Reading, too, was altered.
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A Year in Reading: Jedediah Britton-Purdy

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Books often bring the new for me, but this year they were more of a trace backward, stitching new experience into what underlay it.
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A Year in Reading: C Pam Zhang

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It was the last year of my third decade on this earth, and it seems with every passing year I grow increasingly alien to that earth, or it to me.
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A Year in Reading: Venita Blackburn

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Don’t play with dark spirts. Once you let them in, you might not be able to let them out. Starting a new book feels like sitting down to a tarot reading.
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A Year in Reading: Jennifer Croft

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Despentes and Wynne are like the perfect dance partners, whirling around and around modern-day Paris with its hypocritical left and its virulent right.
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A Year in Reading: Iva Dixit

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Apologies to strangers who endured me recounting this self-mythologization at parties with overenthusiastic use of the phrase “relaxed mental sphincters.”
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A Year in Reading: Jason R Jimenez

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Can you imagine a world without frogs? Or even less of them? What is the night without a symphony of croaks? I want to ask that to everyone.
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A Year in Reading: Devi S. Laskar

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Reading is an essential part of being a writer; I’m delighted to have had a chance to read so many books that have thrilled me and inspired me this year.
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