I see your Nancy Mace and I raise you a Troy Nehls.

Everyone in Texas right now:

The Summer of Songbirds by Kristy Woodson Harvey. Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process.

(7/7)

The Barn by Wright Thompson. A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long.

(6/7)

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger. A bereaved musician sails on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed wife, encountering storms and desperate people in in this dystopian, well-written story.

(5/7)

Colored Television by Danzy Senna. A struggling biracial writer's life takes an unexpected turn when she gets a chance to develop a groundbreaking TV comedy.

(4/7)

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy.

(3/7)

Live from New York by James Andrew Miller and Thomas Shales. The definitive oral history of Saturday Night Live.

(2/7)

The Books I Read in January! A thread🧵

1. The Lodge by Kayla Olson. A cozy rom-com about a writer who decamps to a Vermont lodge to ghost write a celebrity memoir, but finds herself distracted by the charming ski instructor next door.

(1/7)

Allow me to introduce my dogs. Norman Rockwell and our new puppy Margo Ruby.