Elisa Gabbert: Any Person Is the Only Self
Elisa Gabbert’s latest essay collection, Any Person Is the Only Self, is a wonderful collection about reading, writing, and life.
Book Reviews
Goerge Eliot: Silas Marner
Carrying on with my year with George Eliot, I read and thoroughly enjoyed Silas Marner.
Ann Patchett: Commonwealth
Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth might be my favorite of her books that I’ve read so far.
Jean Stafford: The Mountain Lion
The most recent #NYRBWomen24 book that we finished was Jean Stafford’s The Mountain Lion, and it is not at all what I was expecting . . . in a good way!
Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
I just finished reading Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None for the fourth time, and I still love it.
Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake: Life with Picasso
For #NYRBWomen24 we just finished Life with Picasso, by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, a fascinating, rich memoir of Gilot’s decade as Picasso’s partner.
Willa Cather: O Pioneers!
I reread Willa Cather’s 1913 novel, O Pioneers!, and I liked it even more this time around, though it’s still elusive!
Anthony Horowitz: The Word Is Murder
After reading a couple of his other mystery novels, I’ve returned to Anthony Horowitz with his 2017 novel The Word Is Murder.
Dante Alighieri: The Inferno
After years of intending to do it, I finally reread Dante’s Inferno, this time in the translation by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander.