Kristina Bicher (Blog Staff) is reading When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz These poems will give you vertigo: your ears will throb, your head will gyrate with images of unruly beasts and mesmerizing ancient gods, your mouth will fill with a rich lexicon that is wildly imaginative. These poems are at once raw and sophisticated. Savagery has never been so beautiful. Redemption never … Continue reading #FridayReads for 2/20/15
Victoria Provazza (Fiction Assistant) is reading Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories by Amy Hempel. What I find fascinating about Amy Hempel is that she starts every story with the knowledge of what the last line will be—which I absolutely love—and is able to build these beautifully complex stories around that one sentence. After attending a reading of hers a few weeks ago, I … Continue reading #FridayReads for 11/21/14
Friday Reads is when different assistants and editors tell us what they’re loving that they’re reading this week. Commence the deliciousness. Corinne Sullivan (Editorial Assistant) is reading Oliver Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Right now, I am reading Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Though I try not to make a habit of spending time with any book that has been hailed by The Oprah Magazine, Strout’s … Continue reading #FridayReads for 10/31/14
Daniel Poirier (Creative Director) is reading The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq. One of Houellebecq’s greatest strengths as a writer is a seemingly unlimited number of lenses that he uses to telescope the reader’s distance from any given passage. It’s a remarkable skill and it grants him the uncanny ability to break one of the generally accepted writing rules—show, don’t tell—and get away … Continue reading #FridayReads for 3/14/14
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