Lit Top 5: October 2019
Some of the most interesting events for October.
A Novel Training Guide: Writing Tips from a Mediocre Marathoner
Lacing up my Nikes when writing got tough…
Time Travel Against Misogyny: A Review of “The Future of Another Timeline” by Annalee Newitz
Newitz’s good fight is unabashedly a feminist one, with an emphasis on racial and gender intersectionality.
The Branches and Roots of Policing: A Review of Laurence Ralph’s “The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence”
Laurence Ralph’s “The Torture Letters” chronicles the torture carried out by former police commander Jon Burge in Area Two.
Hovering in the Middle: Discussing “On Division” with Goldie Goldbloom
Goldie Goldbloom, Chassidic, a mother of eight, and a queer activist, speaks about her remarkable novel.
A Novel in the Key of Its Characters: A Review of “Jenny in Corona” by Stuart Ross
Ross crafts his characters to resemble the places they live and the misery they feel.
Art Held Hostage: A Review of “Hitler’s Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich” by Mary M. Lane
The art world remains the “world’s largest legal but unregulated industry.”
What Happens on the Banks: Renny Golden’s “The Music of Her Rivers”
A work that that ties us together by water.
Making a Bigger Table: A Review of “The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, And Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me” by Keah Brown
Brown merges her love of pop culture with her concerns about representing several identities simultaneously as a young black woman with cerebral palsy.
Lit Top 5: September 2019
From London’s Morden Tower to Minnesota, the city comes to literary life in September.
