Another fine story by Keegan, deeply humane. This time the story is written from the point of view of a married father of five girls. Both Foster and Small Things Like These are set in Ireland, by the way, and Small Things is about 2 hours long, so a little more to enjoy. The time
Author: Teri Rife
This novella is 96 pages or, in the case of the eaudiobook which was the format I borrowed from the library, 1.5 hours long. I heartily recommend it. Poignant, that’s the word for it, I think. You’d have to have a cold heart not to love the young girl who tells this brief tale of
An article I think my friends here will enjoy, too:
I finished listening to this book today, and my brain is bent. Calling all fans of sci-fi–complex sci-fi. I didn’t know how to say anything about this that wouldn’t spoil it, but I found a reviewer who did the job well. The book begins with a boatload of characters, and I laughed out loud when
The subtitle of this book is “How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women — and Women to Medicine.” I listened to Nimura speak about her new book on an internet book tour, and decided I should follow my first instinct and read it. In 1849, Elizabeth was the first female in America to earn
Divya Victor’s “W is for Walt Whitman’s Soul” is in the ModPo syllabus, and now another of her poems is read and discussed by Padraig O’Tuama on OnBeing’s “Poetry Unbound.” You can find this 15-minute listen here:
I loved The Night Watchman, so I wanted to get my hands on Erdrich’s new book ASAP. There was a ghost in The Night Watchman and there is a ghost in The Sentence, but they are very different ghosts in very different stories, both rewarding reads. The Sentence begins on All Souls Day in 2019
Padraig O Tuama explores this poem in a June, 2021 episode, which is so apt today. Sixteen minutes of listening–but not enough. https://onbeing.org/programs/ilya-kaminsky-we-lived-happily-during-the-war/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20February%2025%2C%202022&utm_term=lithub_master_list
A promise made by Pa to Ma when she is on her deathbed is not kept by Pa, and that failure is the underpinning of this multi-decade family story. Ma, Pa, Anton, Astrid, and Amor: parents and children. The book’s setting is post-apartheid Pretoria, South Africa, on a family farm. The Swart family is white
Celebrating two, as Gertrude would say, geniuses, who share a birthday today! And if you want to read a bit about this book, which I have not gotten my hands on, there’s an NPR review titled “Gertrude Stein’s Silly — and Stilted — ‘To Do’” But, hey, how many times has Stein been accused of
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