How to Fix Your Life: An Autumn Reading List
Woolfian Resolutions for “October, the Dawn of the Year”
The Gap of Time
Jeanette Winterson
“I saw the strangest sight tonight. I was on my way home, the night hot and heavy, the way it gets here this time of year so that your skin is shiny and your shirt is never dry.”
A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood
Michele Wallace
“When I was in the third grade I wanted to be president. I can still remember the stricken look on my teacher’s face when I announced it in class. By the time I was in the fourth grade I had decided to be the president’s wife instead. It never occurred to me that I could be neither because I was Black.”
How to Read Through the Depths of Postpartum Depression
On John Gardner, Denis Johnson, and the Baby Blues
At Knopf’s 100th Birthday: James Ellroy Preaches, Patti Smith Sings
Anxious Borzoi, Tipsy Writers, and Publishing Royalty Gather Together
Los Angeles: False, Bogus, and Wonderful
David Ulin and Mark Haskell Smith End Up at the Tar Pits, Again
The Martian
Andy Weir
“I guess I should explain how Mars missions work, for any layman who may be reading this. We got to Earth orbit the normal way, through an ordinary ship to Hermes. All the Ares missions use Hermes to get to and from Mars. It’s really big and cost a lot so NASA built only one.”
Immigration, Dislocation, and the Search for Home
Christos Tsiolkas: “I am proof that multiculturalism is worth defending.”
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