Posts Tagged: What We’re Reading
March 22, 2012
The Return to the Nest Syndrome
Growing up is terrifying. No one told me when I was a wee young thing that once I hit 21, gone would be the days of sleeping past noon, purchasing frivolous items …
May 12, 2011
What We’re Reading: Annie Proulx’s Close Range and Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses
I’ve been really into Westerns and horse books lately. This is surprising to me, since I’ve only been horseback riding twice and both times it was a total disaster. In January, I …
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March 22, 2011
What We’re Reading: The Tiger’s Wife
It seems like you can’t go anywhere these days without brushing up against a tiger. With the arrival of spring, we have talk on TV of whether or not golfer Tiger Woods …
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November 29, 2010
What We’re Reading: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
I discovered the writing of Lydia Davis during my freshman year at Sarah Lawrence College, when a friend loaned me a copy of her first short story collection, Break it Down, and …
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October 26, 2010
What We're Reading: Cutting for Stone
Editors will tell you that there’s an occupational hazard that comes with the job. To wit: it can be hard to carve out time to read totally and utterly for pleasure. That …
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October 8, 2010
What We're Reading Room by Emma Donoghue
If you haven’t heard of Room by Emma Donoghue, or if you have but haven’t bought it yet, go buy it. Do it today. Immediately. Because I promise you will not be …
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September 17, 2010
What We're Reading: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Let me be straight with you, fellow readers. I wasn’t even finished with Freedom before I chose Jonathan Franzen’s novel to kick-start my “what-book-are-you-cheating-on-Algonquin- with” entry. Is it everything the critics have …
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