A Year in Reading: Ruth Ozeki

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I celebrated my liberation from writing with Klara and the Sun, Ishiguro’s newest novel about a near-human doll who aspires to human sentience and autonomy.
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A Year in Reading: Lydia Kiesling

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I became interested in plants during the pandemic, first uncertainly, then with a frenzy that has led to credit card debt and conversations with a spouse I imagine are similar to other conversations with spouses where one of the spouses is trying to hide something.
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A Year in Reading: Bill Morris

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My purest reading pleasure of the year was my first stab at the work of Percival Everett, the gifted, prolific, genre-bending author of some 30 works of fiction.
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A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee

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At about the time, as a child, I learned my parents could die at any minute (and so could I, but that was beside the point), I became obsessed with time, especially since I learned it passes.
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A Year in Reading: Matt Seidel

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This spring, I became involved in a fence dispute with a neighbor. I have decided to transmute any lingering resentment into literary channels, and thus my year in reading focuses on fences literal and metaphorical.
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A Year In Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg

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Simply put, Yoon Choi is the most ambitious and accomplished practitioner of the Chekhovian short story to appear in many years.
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A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne

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I became a Whitehead evangelist, reading all his books and pressing them on friends.
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A Year in Reading: Melissa Lozada-Oliva

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Despite all of my parents' struggles & my own, my life has been good & I have never known the exact horror of uncertainty, how it makes every passing moment, every drink with a friend, every laugh, every bad dance move, every unfinished coffee, precious.
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A Year in Reading: Monica West

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I never imagined that reading would one day become my only way of connecting to the world that I was often prohibited from entering in 2020 and 2021.
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A Year in Reading: Arianna Rebolini

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The Moon Book became my Bible; I opened it every day. I took notes. I downloaded multiple moon calendar apps. I journaled; I meditated; I built an altar and did spells.
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A Year in Reading: Marlowe Granados

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My reading is stubbornly centered on works by women in the 20th century. Whenever I tell someone what I’m reading, no one seems to know what I’m talking about.
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A Year in Reading: Liv Stratman

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At the risk of coming across exactly like the smug shithead I really am (when I'm not pretending to be chill (ugh) so that men will like me), I admit here that I find the premise of a reading goal pretty lame.
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A Year in Reading: Uwem Akpan

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What are the ethics of recreating historical figures? Would it be an abuse of a writer’s powers to make them worse than they were in real life? Who gets to define what just representation means here?
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A Year in Reading: Mark Slouka

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When times get hard—and the news, I think it’s fair to say, has sucked of late—my reading, like everyone else’s, gets reactive.
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A Year in Reading: Lauren Francis-Sharma

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These are stories and essay collections written by and about people who are interested in examining the world. This is what I needed in books this year, so I offer them to you, as a healing balm for all our 2021 wounds.
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A Year in Reading: Mina Seçkin

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Moving to a new city during a pandemic likely caused me to read more books than usual this year. I buried myself in books! As the lonely do!
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A Year in Reading: Carribean Fragoza

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My reading choices this year, more than ever, dig deeper into my interest in what writers are doing, thinking, and living beyond the page.
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A Year in Reading: Jonathan Escoffery

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This year, perhaps more than any other in my adult life, I’ve yearned for narratives that promise big things will happen in the lives of the characters they feature.
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