Music From Another World by Robin Talley. Inkyard Press, 2020. $18.99, 384 Pages.
Imagine living in the seventies in a conservative community in California. Oh, and you’re also a closeted teenage lesbian. No one knows about it and you keep …
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What You Become In Flight
What You Become In Flight by Ellen O’Connell Whittet. Melville House, 2020. $17.99, 240 Pages.
At nineteen, Ellen O’Connell Whittet had a promising career as a ballerina ahead of her. The kind of ballet she was most suited to, she …
Rodham
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld. Random House, 2020. $30.00, 432 pages.
Curtis Sittenfeld’s upcoming novel, Rodham, is a reimagining of Hillary Rodham’s life had she not married Bill Clinton. The provocative premise will draw readers in, but you’ll stay for …
Strong Like Her
Strong Like Her by Haley Shapley. Simon and Schuster, 2020. 272 pages.
“Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man” is a phrase that has become increasingly popular within the Etsy cross-stitch community, and possibly more surprisingly, perfectly …
Kept Animals
Kept Animals by Kate Milliken. Scribner, 2020. $27.00, 368 pages.
It’s been three months since I’ve found the time to read a whole novel, and part of me was wondering whether I’d forgotten how to read completely until I opened …
These Ghosts Are Family
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card. Simon and Schuster, 2020. 271 pages.
In Maisy Card’s These Ghosts Are Family, the legacy of trauma takes form. Told in chapters that could be read as individual stories, These Ghosts Are …
Look
Look by Zan Romanaff. Dial Books, 2020. $17.99, 366 pages.
Women experience objectification in film. You’re probably rolling your eyes and thinking, Of course. So many forms of media treat women as objects, most of us have known about …
Animalia
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo. Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019. 416 pages.
Good novels pique or even hold your attention; great ones transcend their subject, becoming much-needed exposés of the myriad of deep-seated societal, and psychological issues that plague our world. A …
The Crying Book
The Crying Book by Heather Christle. Catapult, 2019. $16.95, 208 pages.
In her author’s note, Heather Christle writes that The Crying Book began as a map of all the places she has cried. Over many years, the book grew to …
The Myth of New Orleans at Year 301
Robert Azzarello
Three Hundred Years of Decadence: New Orleans Literature and the Transatlantic World LSU Press, 2019 224 Pages
Thomas Jessen Adams and Matt Sakakeeny, eds. Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity Duke University Press, 2019 368 Pages
T.R. …
