The Ultimate Summer 2021 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2021 Reading List

All the Big Books From All the Big Lists

By Emily Temple | June 10, 2021

How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

Adam Scovell on One of the Playwright’s Many Legacies

By Adam Scovell | June 10, 2021

How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring <em>Zami</em> Spoke My Truth Into Existence

How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring Zami Spoke My Truth Into Existence

Jamika Ajalon on Biomythography, Friendships, and Queer Identity

By Jamika Ajalon | June 10, 2021

Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

The Author of Southbound Talks to Sari Botton

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 10, 2021

Reading Books About... People Reading Books?

Reading Books About... People Reading Books?

Alice Jolly Recommends Biblio-Memoirs by Nina Sankovitch, Andy Miller, Jenn Shapland, and More

By Alice Jolly | June 10, 2021

The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

E.J. Levy on Writing Through Literary Vanity

By E.J. Levy | June 10, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes
  • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David
  • I Can't Stop Thinking about Horses and Sex
  • Queen of Lombard Street
  • Paradise Burns
  • Doppelgänger
  • Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
  • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
  • The Turning of Sally-Mae

Katherine Heiny on Letting the Character Get What She Wants... in a Roundabout Way

By The Maris Review | June 10, 2021

When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

By Book Dreams | June 10, 2021

On the Etymology and Reverberating Human History of the Color Green

By Gillian Osborne | June 9, 2021

WATCH: Hala Alyan, Te-Ping Chen, Joshua Mohr, and Thomas Grattan at the Franklin Park Reading Series

WATCH: Hala Alyan, Te-Ping Chen, Joshua Mohr, and Thomas Grattan at the Franklin Park Reading Series

Hosted by Marae Hart

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 9, 2021

On Finding a Little Spark When Your Writing’s Lost Its Heat

On Finding a Little Spark When Your Writing’s Lost Its Heat

What Ron Hogan Learned from Conan, Nanette, Mary Oliver, and More

By Ron Hogan | June 9, 2021

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Aminatta Forna Moves Through a Cultural and Personal History of Sleeplessness

By Aminatta Forna | June 9, 2021

Kristen Arnett: “I Always Want to Write Something Messy. What’s the Fun of Being Clean All the Time?”

Kristen Arnett: “I Always Want to Write Something Messy. What’s the Fun of Being Clean All the Time?”

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | June 9, 2021

Jenny Lawson on (Dark) Humor as a Conduit to Compassion

Jenny Lawson on (Dark) Humor as a Conduit to Compassion

In Conversation with Kendra Winchester on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | June 9, 2021

On Leaving and Returning: <br>A Reading List About Home

On Leaving and Returning:
A Reading List About Home

Andy Abramowitz Recommends Anne Tyler, Rebecca Makkai, Tove Ditlevsen, and More

By Andy Abramowitz | June 9, 2021

Reading Shades of Gray in Avi’s <em>Nothing But the Truth</em>

Reading Shades of Gray in Avi’s Nothing But the Truth

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | June 9, 2021

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