Author: JNaz

Oh, grant yourselves these four glorious minutes of light and shadow…

This book was riveting, unexpectedly so. I found myself carrying it with me and reading anytime I had a few extra minutes. Colapinto writes with clarity and curiosity, with compassion, humor, and depth. This is a stunning, intelligent discourse on the voice and how its development has shaped us as a species, while we, as

I just loved this generous book. Generous, yes, this is the word that insisted itself as I read this collection of essays. Sejal Shah is a writer of startling insight and lyric prose and these essays, written over the course of two decades, show us a writer deepening her craft and her understanding of self.

I highly recommend you take three minutes of your day and watch this startling film. True dark is a vast resource, lost to many of us. So much of our night sky invisible. I watched this several times, just relishing the stars. Also, I turned off the sound half way through my first viewing and

I have just finished reading and exploring Hafizah Geter’s debut collection of poems and I am knocked flat. These poems traverse many landscapes, internal and external/brutal and beautiful. These are spare pieces that pack a big punch as she deals with issues of love, loss, racism, abuse, police brutality, family. They are, at once, accessible

This lovely book, this lovely, sad book, really struck me. Its beautiful, spare language is never overwrought, even as it pulls us through great sorrows, great loss. I loved that about it because it ultimately tells a very sad story, the story of a child abandoned by his mother. But I never felt pummeled by

This book was such a surprise. I had tuned into a conversation between Eliot Weinberger and Forrest Gander, hosted by Point Reyes Books, and afterward submitted a request for this book to my library. Not sure what I expected but it was very unexpected. Though all of it is based on historical texts and it

Thought some of you might be interested in tuning into this conversation. I have listened in on several Point Reyes Books events and they have been exceptional. They do post to YouTube eventually but it takes awhile. https://www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/kazim-ali-and-natalie-diaz