LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE I KNOW, I have spent much of this summer reading the 1,600 plus pages of Elena Ferrante’s four Neopolitan novels. And like all of those people, I have simultaneously watched the other books I need/want/intend to read pile up, Collier-brothers-like, around me. Here’s a little peek into what else is going on in the world of publishing. Let me know how they are as I finish the last pages of Ferrante’s astonishing works.
Robert Gotleib’s dish within dish within dish comes in the form of an excerpt from his upcoming memoir on New York publishing.
You remember Tama Janowitz. Apparently she did not particularly enjoy being semi-famous, and writes about that – and more – in her new memoir.
Salon’s list of 13 music memoirs they’d like to read in 2017 by women and artists of color.
J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy is getting lots of press, including this New York Times review.
This sounds like a tremendous personal history of racism.
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