In My Notebook, Novellas #NovNov (hahaha)

2024-02-15T10:44:28-05:00

The list I made last November with #NovNov in mind is a snapshot of an ambitious reader’s brain, high on bookish possibilities. You recognise the vague outlines that persist, when one is away from one’s bookshelves but in a planning mood, unbound. The titles listed in black are all

In My Notebook, Novellas #NovNov (hahaha)2024-02-15T10:44:28-05:00

In My Notebook, March 2022

2022-03-28T19:58:18-04:00

It is the way of things that, in the week I was reading and writing about Audre Lorde’s first essay in Sister Outsider, I met her in another book too. In “The History of Black People” from Magical Negro (2019), Morgan Parker writes: “If you cut open my heart,

In My Notebook, March 20222022-03-28T19:58:18-04:00

January 2021, In My Notebook

2022-03-28T19:53:39-04:00

This regular feature on BIP altered during the past year; my favourite on-the-move notebook sprouted a layer of dust because now that I’m consistently sitting at my desk, I often choose to key my notes directly rather than handwrite. For rereading, I still appreciate handwritten notes; that way, I’m

January 2021, In My Notebook2022-03-28T19:53:39-04:00

Summer 2019, In My Notebook

2019-08-27T12:56:24-04:00

This year I added another writer to my MRE list. In truth, he was one of the writers whose stories provoked that kind of MustReadEverything commitment early on, but I didn’t have a word for it yet. Authors who told the kind of stories that I wanted on my

Summer 2019, In My Notebook2019-08-27T12:56:24-04:00

May 2019, In My Notebook

2019-05-27T20:26:09-04:00

I reread Harriet the Spy and The Long Secret (which I didn’t properly appreciate as a young reader) in April, to write a pair of essays for the Literary Ladies site, hosted by Nava Atlas, author of (among other books) The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Literary Life (2011).

May 2019, In My Notebook2019-05-27T20:26:09-04:00
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