Autumn 2023, In My Stacks #MARM #UrsulaKLeGuinFictionPrize

2023-10-21T09:35:07-04:00

Earlier this year, I read Britt Wray’s Generation Dread, which is where I learned about the philosopher Thomas Attig, who tells us: “grief allows us to ‘relearn the world’ by thinking about how the world has changed when something that matters deeply to us is lost, and how that

Autumn 2023, In My Stacks #MARM #UrsulaKLeGuinFictionPrize2023-10-21T09:35:07-04:00

Connecting Thread: From Roe to Revolution (1 of 5)

2022-01-21T20:26:23-05:00

At first, I planned to carry on with my non-fiction and fiction rhythm from my booklog. While I was reading up on Lauren Groff to review her new book for The Chicago Review of Books, I came across her essay “The Ambivalent Activist, Jane Roe” in Fight of the

Connecting Thread: From Roe to Revolution (1 of 5)2022-01-21T20:26:23-05:00

Francesca Ekwuyasi’s Butter Honey Pig Bread (2020)

2020-11-08T16:41:26-05:00

Taiye and Kahinde are twin sisters, daughters of Kambirinachi: Butter Honey Pig Bread alternates between their perspectives, each woman narrating their contemporary experiences through the lens of key events in their pasts. The sister’s mother is Yoruba and their father is Igbo, something they often have to explain when

Francesca Ekwuyasi’s Butter Honey Pig Bread (2020)2020-11-08T16:41:26-05:00

Eva Crocker’s All I Ask (2020)

2020-11-03T17:16:09-05:00

In anticipation of the publication of her debut novel, “Eva Crocker shares a story about her mother, Lisa Moore”. In the broadest sense, her piece reveals the importance of childhood memories and how, even years later, events that occured when we are young, fundamentally influence our responses to events

Eva Crocker’s All I Ask (2020)2020-11-03T17:16:09-05:00
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