✨The Great 2023A Book Preview is here!✨
Six months. Eighty-five books. These are the can't-miss titles slated for the first half of 2023:
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"The story of the American West has conventionally been the story of a certain kind of man: self-possessed, independent, and therefore powerful."
reviews Leyna Krow's debut novel 'Fire Season.'
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"Like virginal teenagers, they all wanted to know 'what it felt like.'"
Writer Ellen Pall, who abstained from writing for two years, reflects on her experiment.
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Praise for an update to perhaps the best book on modern English usage. “For anyone interested in language, it’s catnip.”
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"...what a gift it is to share your life with another person and how part of that gift is bearing witness—that privilege of seeing, accepting, and supporting someone for who they are at the time of their life when you know them." via
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A delight! Ellen Pall's "Adventures in Not-Writing" "Like virginal teenagers, they all wanted to know 'what it felt like.' As the evening ended, an esteemed editor pointed an accusing finger at me and said, 'You’re going to write about this'"
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“Pleasure is good for us physically and mentally”: Amina Cain (whose work we’ve reviewed in 2009, 2020, and in our forthcoming issue!) interviewed by at :
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"The way he sees it, we all have [...] the voice in our head, the voice we speak with, and the voice we write with. 'When you’re a person who stutters, two of those voices are at war with each other,' he says. 'So writing was like the secret linchpin.'"
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"The short story, as I have said before in this column, as I say to my classes, is typically a sadistic art form."
reflects on happy endings on the latest installment of the William Trevor Reader.
"Bryan A. Garner didn’t release a fifth edition of his Modern English Usage to explain the difference between coordinate and subordinate clauses—that hasn’t changed since 2016, when the previous edition was published."
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"He wasn’t there when I received the mock-ups of my book cover. When the first reviews were posted. He wasn’t there when it was published."
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"Those familiar with Saunders’s aesthetic will find the distinct features of his work have further evolved into delightful extremes."
Alexander Sammartino traces the evolution of George Saunders's comedic sensibilities.
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"When Huck and Jim try to fight the current, they go hurtling down the Mississippi in what has become the most consequential missed turn in American literature."
Connor Mullin on the difficulties of pinpointing motive in literature and in life.
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"I feel like I’ve put myself through a second PhD program trying to learn how to make graphic narratives."
talks with about her new graphic memoir 'The Keeper.'
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"Is this some species of historical realism or pure fabulism?"
considers Leyna Krow's 'Fire Season.'
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New collections from , , and more—these are our must-read poetry picks of the season.
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Thanks to for this wonderful conversation at The Millions about graphic literature, women’s sports and bodies, and how Nabokov and The Artist’s Way helped me figure out how a goalkeeper could become a writer.
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And we spy some of Riverhead's very own 👀 check out Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor, The Half Known Life by , Ada's Room by , and The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor via
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's great books preview is here, and it features 85 books you'll want to read in the first half of 2023!
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One of my very favorite twice-yearly traditions: the book preview at The Millions.
Here's what I'm most excited about that I didn't know about before:
* The Survivalists
* After Sappho
* The Wife of Willesden (does this mean we get _two_ Zadie Smith books this year?)
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Six months. Eighty-five books. These are the can't-miss titles slated for the first half of 2023:
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By looking at Mary Shelley's journal entries, tries to piece together the genesis of her famous novel, Frankenstein, and the journey of its creation. 'The product of the initial inspiration itself, the original fire, it’s missing.'
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"The language and the comedy are inseparable, much in the same way a map is necessarily connected to its represented geography: comedy occasions his voice, the combination of language systems that bring about that quality of Saundersness."
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By looking at Mary Shelley's journal entries, tries to piece together the genesis of her famous novel, Frankenstein, and the journey of its creation. 'The product of the initial inspiration itself, the original fire, it’s missing.'
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"Throughout his career, language itself is the source and the object of his humor," write Alexander Sammartino. "And while his short stories are rightfully known for far more than their laughs, the comic is neither frill nor misdirection in his work."
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"As impressive as his conversance with English’s history is Garner’s awareness of present-day trends."
On what Bryan A. Garner's latest compendium of modern English usage brings to the table:
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"Publishing the novel was a lifelong dream, but every milestone in the process was another reminder that my husband wasn’t there to share it."
"I got my first piece of hate mail about the book, from a woman who suggested that my problems had nothing to do with culture and everything to do with nurturing," tells us. "In an incredible display of growth, I deleted the email."
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"DeWitt’s writing has a style: full of mathematical and polyglottal jargon, littered with footnotes, populated by characters with intransigent opinions," writes . "And DeWitt’s writing is about style, all those problems of aesthetics and taste."
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"From the vantage of the gatekeepers of literature, on the day his ashes were interred in a cemetery in Rome, Percy Bysshe Shelley seemed destined to be forgotten," writes . "Lucky for us, they were very wrong."
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"These are a fan’s notes rather than a songwriter’s secrets."
Scott Peeples reviews 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' by Bob Dylan.
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"It’s often said that writing is a career of attrition," writes , "and there are few more consistent drop-off points in a woman’s career than the birth of a child."
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"Logic is, as Garner realizes, a cornerstone of usage and grammar. The purpose of his recommendations—and that of grammar, ultimately—is to help people make themselves understood."
considers the latest edition of 'Modern English Usage.'
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. English alum annotated a list of her favorite 2022 reads, which includes work by fellow alums and as well as professor (+ lots more!) 📖 See the full list : ow.ly/Futl50M2IWv #ASUHumanities
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