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read phillip lopate to show and to tell the craft of literary nonfiction rachel cusk a life s work on becoming a mother vivian gornick fierce attachments jesmyn ward salvage the bones eula biss on immunity jenny offill dept of speculation james baldwin notes of a native son fran ross oreo heidi julavits the folded clock sarah manguso ongoingness the end of a diary maggie nelson the argonauts claudia rankine citizen an american lyric paul beatty the sellout karl ove knausgaard my struggle book 1 lina meruane seeing red marie ndiaye ladivine maggie nelson the red parts myriam gurba mean tressie mcmillan cottom thick and other essays valeria luiselli tell me how it ends an essay in 40 questions maggie o farrell i am i am i am carmen maria machado in the dream house lucy ellmann ducks newburyport anne boyer the undying kate zambreno drifts ariana harwicz die my love leave a comment filed under books friday july 17 2020 3 35 pm 5 great new nonfiction books book riot here s my latest post on book riot i ve been on the hunt for great new nonfiction particularly books that mix genres in some way i especially love books that use memoir as a starting point to explore the larger world the books i ve found below combine memoir with history travel philosophy literary criticism politics religion and more through these books you can learn about lighthouses harvesting race theory rereading and the cultural importance of toni morrison check out the list and see if one of these books catches your eye on lighthouses by jazmina barrera translated by christina macsweeney this is a book about lighthouses but also about travel isolation time history and collecting jazmina barrera takes readers on a tour of the lighthouses she has visited charting their history traditions technologies and future she contemplates famous literary depictions of lighthouses and what it s like to be a lighthouse keeper the book describes barrera s travels and the nature of her obsession and also contemplates the many things lighthouses signify and represent it s a meditative mix of ideas emotions and observations barrera s writing is clear and evocative and the book s meandering form is a perfect way to capture the dangerous spaces where sea and land meet the toni morrison book club by juda bennett winnifred brown glaude cassandra jackson and piper kendrix williams four friends who love toni morrison collaborated on this mix of memoir and literary criticism the friends come from various backgrounds three are black one white one is gay one an immigrant the book uses secrets from the authors lives some large some small as a springboard for each author to dive into personal stories that they relate to one of morrison s novels the novels help illuminate their lives and their lives illuminate the novels the authors effectively balance memoir and criticism to keep their work accessible to those who haven t read all or even any of morrison s work the result is a moving memorable tribute to the power of morrison s writing unfinished business notes of a chronic re reader by vivian gornick love to read about books unfinished business is one of the best meditations on books and reading i ve ever come across vivian gornick uses books to chart how she has changed over the years she rereads some of her favorites including works by d h lawrence colette marguerite duras doris lessing natalia ginzburg and others and contemplates the new meanings the books have accumulated she writes about her life with warmth and verve and her stories will fascinate whether you know anything about gornick or not her insights into literature are rich and feel honest and hard earned gornick is a captivating writer her energetic prose style combined with sharp intelligence years of wisdom make for a wonderful read american harvest god country and farming in the heartland by marie mutsuki mockett marie mutsuki mockett grew up in california but her family has owned a farm in nebraska for generations her family s harvester invited her to join his team as they travel from texas north following the ripening wheat she wants to understand cultural differences between her secular multi cultural organic food loving coastal friends and the white evangelical gmo advocates among midwestern farmers and harvesters american harvest is the story of her travels and an account of the conversations church services and harvesting sessions she experienced along the way it s a moving account of what it s like to be a person of color traveling through the midwest and a thoughtful compassionate attempt to understand and bridge deep rooted cultural divides afropessimism by frank b wilderson iii this book combines memoir and philosophy to make an argument about what it means to be black wilderson writes about growing up in minneapolis studying with edward said living in berkeley and south africa and a lot more the book begins with a harrowing description of wilderson s mental health breakdown as he tells his story wilderson argues that subjugating black people is fundamental to the way non black people form their identity and their understanding of themselves as human he argues that anti blackness is baked into our civilization and the only honest response to the situation is to acknowledge it it s a challenging argument that combined with wilderson s absorbing memoir makes for a powerful read 1 comment filed under books sunday july 12 2020 3 39 pm preparing for women in translation month women in translation month is august do you know what you re reading for it yet women in translation month was founded by meytal radzinski who blogs and tweets as a way to address the gender imbalance in the books that get translated it s been going on since 2014 and from what i can see gets more and more attention each year and deservedly so it s fun to see what people are reading learn about new authors and read some great books so now i m going to think about what i might read this august here are some possibilities that time of year by marie ndiaye translated by jordan stump this one comes out in september but i m lucky enough to have an advanced copy on my shelves right now the cheffe by marie ndiaye translated by jordan stump yes i like ndiaye a lot i ve read three of her books so far and found each one strange eerie and fascinating love by hanne orstavik translated by martin aitken i know nothing about this author or book but i ve heard some stellar recommendations i picked it up on a recent book buying spree back when browsing in bookstores was a thing river by esther kinsky translated by iain galbraith i m currently reading grove by esther kinsky and finding it absorbing and meditative exposition by nathalie leger translated by natasha lehrer this is another book that isn t out yet and that i have an advanced copy of sorry but i might also pick up her book suite for barbara loden which is available these are published by dorothy project a very small publisher two books a year that i love celestial bodies by jokha alharthi translated by marilyn booth this one won the 2019 man booker international prize and is the first novel by an omani women to be translated into english the book of anna by carmen boullosa translated by samantha schnee i read boullosa s novel before a few years back and found it strange and wonderful the book of anna sort of plays around with the story of anna karenina family lexicon by natalia ginzburg translated by jenny mcphee natalia ginzburg is a writer i ve long thought i d love but except for one essay i haven t read her you know those writers you re always planning to read it s nice to finally get around to them i won t be reading all these books in august but i think these make a pretty good pile to choose from if you have plans for women in translation month i d love to hear them 5 comments filed under books tuesday july 7 2020 3 14 pm real life by brandon taylor real life by brandon taylor really got to me it s an academic novel first of all which i love in this case the main character wallace is in graduate school for biochemistry he spends as much time as he can in the lab working on experiments with nematodes experiments that don t always go well colleagues in the lab don t always treat him well and his relationship with her supervisor is uneasy that right there is enough to make me want to keep reading trouble in graduate school makes me tense it s also a novel that takes its time explaining the characters feelings the story takes place over one weekend friday evening through sunday evening and the characters have some emotions i love a book that takes its time capturing every nuance of encounters and conversations wallace has a group of friends but he still feels like an outsider he comes from a poor family in alabama and had a difficult childhood so he is wary of his more privileged classmates wallace is also the only black student in his cohort and one of the very few people of color where he s studying so he has had to deal with racism of varying levels of overtness he overcomes his impulse to isolate himself and hangs out with his friends on a late summer friday night and the plot proceeds from there i won t get into the details of what happens but wallace who is gay finds himself in an unexpected relationship that challenges his isolated closed off tendencies he s trying to figure out whether he can be vulnerable he s also trying to figure out whether he wants to stay in grad school any longer the novel was painful to read but in a good way wallace is such a sympathetic figure if sometimes infuriating but realistically understandably that it is hard to see him suffer the racism he experienced was painful his insecurities are painful his struggles in grad school are painful but taylor captures all this with such care that it s a pleasure to read it s also a very literary novel with nods to virginia woolf and shades of jane austen there s just so much to love 5 comments filed under books wednesday july 1 2020 2 55 pm june reading i read nine books in june a good number for me the books include six in print one ebook and two audio books seven of the books were nonfiction and of the fiction one was a collection of short stories so only one novel that s unusual i read a lot of nonfiction but generally it s maybe half nonfiction half fiction i wrote a round up of nonfiction for book riot which will be published sometime soonish so that partly explains it and i also came across a couple essays collections that sounded appealing and i finished the month with those my favorite was book of mutter by kate zambreno which i wrote about in my previous post so good here is a list of all the books american harvest by marie mutsuki mockett this is a memoir travel book about a summer mutsuki mockett spent traveling with wheat harvesters she writes about the coastal midwest cultural divide religion race and farms i wrote about it some here the toni morrison book club by juda bennett winnifred brown glaude cassandra jackson and piper kendrix williams some thoughts are here my first audiobook ramifications by daniel saldaña paris translated by christina macsweeney this one is available in october it s my one novel of the month i read an ebook version to write a review for foreword reviews so more thoughts later but i liked it it s about a young man unable unwilling to leave his bed as he thinks about the year his mother abandoned his family afropessimism by frank wilderson this book is part memoir part argument about anti black racism i m not entirely sure what to make of the overarching argument and would love to read reviews from black and non black poc reviewers i ll have to look around and see what i find but the ideas are fascinating and provoking and the memoir part makes for absorbing reading book of mutter by kate zambreno thoughts here something that may shock and discredit you by daniel mallory ortberg who now goes by daniel m lavery this was my second audiobook i had mixed feelings about this one it s partly a memoir about lavery s gender transition and that part i liked a lot his thoughts as he slowly made the decision to transition were fascinating especially his accounts of people s reactions then there was other material that s sort of imaginative takes on various literary and cultural figures and those i didn t always like sometimes they made me laugh out loud other times they just puzzled me bluebeard s first wife by ha seong nan translated by janet hong this is a short story collection set in south korea these stories are dark i loved them they vary but many of them are about women struggling with husbands fiancés and children this is one way to dance by sejal shah an essay collection about growing up the daughter of gujarati immigrants about living in rochester n y my hometown about writing race attending weddings moving around the country chasing jobs it s warm and thoughtful a fish growing lungs by alysia li ying sawchyn another essay collection this time about being diagnosed as bipolar and then learning later that this diagnosis was a mistake she describes her struggles with mental illness and drug use and writes about finding her way toward a more stable place it s an interesting look at the world of mental health treatment and at the slow process of growing up and figuring out the person she wants to be finally my review of the really great short novel the bitch by pilar quintana translated by lisa dillman is up at foreword reviews here s to a great july oh wait it s 2020 here s to surviving july leave a comment filed under books saturday june 20 2020 4 26 pm kate zambreno s book of mutter and drifts after falling in love with drifts by kate zambreno i picked up her 2017 book of mutter a nonfiction book about many things but especially the death of her mother it s a gorgeous book as an object as well as a piece of writing she worked on it over the course of 13 years struggling with it until finally she found a way forward she describes trying to find a publisher for it in drifts i kept thinking about genre as i read book of mutter and drifts feel similar to me in a lot of ways because even though one is a novel and one is nonfiction many of the details overlap and the voice and consciousness described feel similar but drifts is longer wordier more detailed while book of mutter is suggestive and about silence as much as speaking drifts is about dailiness getting through time what the narrator does with her days book of mutter works more through juxtaposing ideas and putting original writing up against quotation and letting readers make connections there s lots of white space in book of mutter it can be a quick read except that you will want to pause after each page to reread and think i m not sure that genre matters much here at least not in the way we usually think about fiction vs nonfiction drifts feels more novelistic in its attention to daily life and its narrator who 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