What Are We Reading this Year?
What are our contributors reading?
July – August
Edmund D. Fountain
Widow’s Bay
I love the performances from Stephen Root, Matthew Rhys and Dale Dickey. My favorite show of all time is the first season of True Detective.
Fritz Esker
Rooster
Steve Carell plays an author who accepts a college lecturer position as a way to support his professor daughter, who’s reeling after her husband’s infidelity.
Misty Milioto
Euphoria
I’ve been catching up on Season 2 in anticipation of Season 3, which I’ve heard is wild. No spoilers, please!
May – June
Melanie Warner Spencer
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. It’s a gorgeously written epistolary novel centered on a 70-year-old retired lawyer who does not suffer fools. Confession: I cried at the end.
John Kemp
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. This remarkable and beautifully written new biography creates a vibrant and at times tragic portrait of this American original with all his complexities, shadows, humor, faults, failings, brilliance and literary triumphs.
Lisa Leblanc Berry
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness by Michael Pollan. He positions himself as both a guide and a guinea pig, this time stitching together personal experience with philosophy and neuroscience, suggesting that the deeper we look into the mind, the more it resembles a hall of mirrors.
March – April
Liz Williams
How to Cook a Coyote by nonagenarian food writer, Betty Fussell. It is a book about aging with a metaphor of a coyote laughing at us about our lives. It is funny and realistic. And it is peppered with food.
Eugenia Uhl
Give Me the World by Leila Hadley. She’s a newly divorced single mother who takes her son to the Far East in 1958. Very descriptive writing. You feel like you are there. Armchair traveling.
Cheré Coen
Twenty-Seven Minutes by Ashley Tate. A deadly accident occurs upon a bridge but why did the driver wait 27 minutes to call an ambulance? The book offers a gripping mystery that doesn’t reveal its answer until the very last pages.
