For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] I hitchhiked over twenty thousand miles as a teenager, mostly in the United States, some in Yugoslavia before the war and in Turkey. Despite this, I have always struggled to write about “the road.” I find that something in the process of writing about it, violates the experience itself. There is the metaphorical road, a … Read more
[ad_1] Poetry has a way of bringing people together. When we connect with words on a page, we feel seen. When other people connect with those same words, we feel that we’re not alone. It’s a really remarkable thing to experience and to watch. I would argue that maybe more than any other form of … Read more
[ad_1] The first time I saw Black Panther in the theater, I felt like I could take over the world. The first time I read a heroine in a romance novel who looked like me, my heart swelled with hope. My experiences aren’t unique because it’s still rare to see mainstream media feature stories about … Read more
[ad_1] Beach Read by Emily Henry, one of the most buzzed about books this summer, was voted to be the Read it Forward book club pick of June. Yes, it is July now (your sense of time hasn’t gone too far astray, we promise), so we did film this video a month late—but for a … Read more
[ad_1] My novel, Atomic Love, features a young woman ahead of her era, a female physicist during WWII, when few women were scientists. Working on the Manhattan project, she helps to create the first atomic reaction. I’m happy to recommend some electrifying historical novels about other women ahead of their times. Featured image: Photo by … Read more
[ad_1] When I think about summer reading, I think about a stone bench in a sun-dappled park where I imbibed the misadventures of Don Quixote, errant knight extraordinaire. I think about a gnarled tree stump on a rocky mountainside where I shook my head over the adultery of Emma B. Say “summer reading,” and tents, … Read more
[ad_1] Erik Larson is the author of five national bestsellers: Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and Isaac’s Storm, which have collectively sold more than nine million copies. His latest, The Splendid and the Vile, delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—it’s … Read more
[ad_1] I’ve always loved books, but I didn’t fully understand their power to help and heal until I met Christy Moore. Christy was one of the hundreds of people I interviewed as part of a five-year effort to collect life stories of Americans in all 50 states who’d been through wrenching life changes. Spurred by … Read more
[ad_1] For a time, I tried really hard not to write a book set in New York. I remembered why I was so resistant when, the other day, I asked my mother what it had been like for her, moving to New York from the Midwest with my father a few years before I was … Read more
[ad_1] Kiley Reid earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship and taught undergraduate creative writing workshops with a focus on race and class. Her short stories have been featured in Ploughshares, December, New South, and Lumina. Reid lives in Philadelphia. Such a Fun Age, Kiley’s debut novel, is an extremely important book. … Read more