reading recommendations
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #21: John Irving
And that is how I feel about John Irving novels. That they gave me everything.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #20: Greats
Great strides, great artists, great desires, great complexity—this week’s books are all about these kinds of greats. They also all showcase exceptional writing and take us far and wide—from elective politics to abstract art, from Coney Island to California—to explore…
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #19: Truth
Truth—a higher, bigger truth—is what I want when I read. I want to nod my head in radical understanding. I want to grasp our complex, fragile humanity better. I want the ancient truths on every page, shown in unique ways.…
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Reading New Orleans
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, Veronica Brooks-Sigler has compiled a list of books inspired by the complex city of New Orleans over at Lit Hub.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #18: A Valentine: Fab Books by Fab Lit Citizens
I’m just back from Iowa, writing about the Democratic Caucus for Salon. You know what will make you think about citizenry? Watching hundreds of working-class union members standing in the harsh wind and freezing rain waiting to get in to…
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Making History Discoverable
Backlist is a new service meant to connect readers and students to curated lists of history books put together by scholars. The site’s founders solicit book lists and recommendations from scholars and historians, with a goal of exposing people to books…
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #17: A Few Smart, Beautiful, Recent Books
You’ll want to devour this bunch—favorites of mine from a wildly disparate batch of recent reads.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #16: For My Friend Craig, on a Boozy Midnight
You know how you can like a book just fine, but if you love a book, you’ll tell a friend about it? I told my friend Craig about all of these books. Craig has a facile brain and big heart and…
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #15: Beautiful Renderings of Complex Locales
In both fiction and non-fiction, I love a book that helps us unravel ourselves by illuminating place, a book that transports me from here to there. These six books will take you far… and deliver you.
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What Bill Gates Reads
At the New York Times, Katherine Rosman discusses Bill Gates’s blog, Gates Notes. Particularly, she considers Gates’s book reviews and recommendations: He rarely posts negative reviews of books, explaining that he sees no need to waste anyone’s time telling them why they…
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The Debut Poets of 2015
Over at Lit Hub, some of the most notable poetry debuts of this past year talk about what it was like to release their first collections.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #13: Bob Dylan
That’s how I experience the world, courtesy of Bob. I’m lucky. Bob will get you through.