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(04/20/22 8:18pm)
I was late to my Tuesday evening class because I couldn’t put down this week’s book. This sounds hyperbolic, but my notes — missing coverage from the first 15 minutes of class — will attest to its truthfulness.
(04/20/22 7:27pm)
“True Biz” published April 5, 2022. It follows the fictional students and staff of the Deaf community at a residential school in Ohio.
(04/13/22 4:48pm)
Last week saw the celebration of National Library Week. To kick off the week, the American Library Association released its annual State of America’s Libraries Report on April 4, which recognized the essential role of libraries in our society and highlighted some of their key contemporary challenges.
(04/13/22 4:26pm)
The American Library Association tracked 729 challenges to library, school and university materials and services in 2021. These books have been challenged during the ALA’s tracking history.
(04/07/22 4:20pm)
Peter Handke’s “The Fruit Thief” published March 15. The fruit thief is an imagined character of the protagonist’s writing.
(04/07/22 4:21pm)
In my first-ever creative writing workshop about five years ago, one of my friends offered me a piece of criticism that I think about roughly twice a week. My friend Lillian said, “Jenna, on average, your sentences feel longer than the Declaration of Independence.”
(03/20/22 8:24pm)
About three years ago, I started tracking all the books I read annually in an Excel spreadsheet. This endeavor, though admittedly contributing to my identity as a total nerd, started after I realized how much of my bookshelves focused on the work of 20th-century white men. I started to read more intentionally, choosing more diverse stories by more diverse authors.
(03/20/22 8:14pm)
Celebrate Women’s History Month with more intentional reading. “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee, is a cross-generational historical fiction novel.
(03/09/22 6:45pm)
Never have I ever met a book-lover who didn’t enjoy books written about books. Personally, right now as I write this column, I can see four such novels in stacks around my room without even moving from my desk. It’s a kind of meta endeavor — to wax poetic about the medium you are using. It offers a concentrated look into why literature matters.
(03/09/22 6:01pm)
“Checkout 19” by Claire-Louise Bennett retells the protagonist’s life through remembering the books she has read. It is Bennett’s second novel.
(02/23/22 6:43pm)
“The world is falling to pieces and everything almost always goes to shit and we almost always hurt the people we love or they hurt us irreparably and there doesn’t seem to be a reason to harbor any kind of hope, but at least this story ends well, ends here, with the scene of those two Chilean poets who look each other in the eye and burst out laughing and don’t want to leave that bar for anything, so they order another round of beers.” — Alejandro Zambra
(02/23/22 6:16pm)
“Chilean Poet” by Alejandro Zambra captures the contemporary literary scene in Chile in a story about love and words. The English translation of “Chilean Poet” published early February.
(02/09/22 8:38pm)
Paris is known as the City of Light, Chicago as the Windy City. Rome is known for its seven hills, Florence for its lilies. My favorite urban identity, though, belongs forever to Prague, the Czech Republic, the city known for its defenestrations.
(01/26/22 7:31pm)
The spine of Weike Wang’s latest novel has its title printed vertically down the cover. Each of the letters comprising “Joan is Okay” is set in type, except for the A in its last word. The A shows an upside down illustration of a woman with a wide stance, so her legs make the natural shape of a capital A.
(01/26/22 7:14pm)
Weike Wang’s second novel “Joan is Okay” published Jan. 18. The story follows intensive care unit doctor Joan as she navigates her work and life balance, or lack thereof.
(01/16/22 8:41pm)
When I was in elementary school, my carpool would take turns reading Nancy Drew mysteries aloud. My sister and I owned the full set, all 56 yellow-covered hardbacks, and whoever was reading would have to use their loudest narrator voice to drown out the rest of us swearing we knew the culprit by approximately the third chapter. Usually we were wrong.
(01/12/22 8:43pm)
My favorite part about opening a new book is the dedication page. Some people skip straight to the first chapter, but I’m always curious about what words the author found most important, the ones that precede the story itself.
(01/12/22 6:29pm)
"Fiona and Jane" is the debut novel of writer Jean Chen Ho and was released Jan. 4. It follows the friendship of two Taiwanese-American women throughout their lives.
(12/08/21 11:09pm)
If you read fiction to escape from reality, Imbolo Mbue’s “How Beautiful We Were” is not for you. If you read fiction to better understand yourself, the world and your peers pushing their way through the suffering also known as the human condition, Mbue’s work should be high on your to-read list.
(12/08/21 7:50pm)
"How Beautiful We Were" is a novel published March 4, 2021, by Imbolo Mbue.