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Laura Perciasepe
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Summit Books/S&S Editor, any book reader
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Love seeing Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin on this stack!!
lailalalami.com Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · Dec 14
If you’re looking holiday gift ideas, here are some books I loved this year: Percival Everett’s James, Jamie Quatro’s Two-Step Devil, Rumaan Alan’s Entitlement, Dinaw Mengestu’s Someone Like Us, Danzy Senna’s Colored Television. Bonus: new titles I’m looking forward to reading in 2025!
A stack of books. In order from bottom to top: Rumaan Alam, Entitlement. Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us. Jamie Quatro, Two-Step Devil. Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland. Percival Everett, James. Omar El Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This. Vauhini Vara, Searches. Mosab Abu Toha, Forest of Noise. Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope. Natalie Zemon Davis, Trickster Travels.
December 16, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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My husband has been in the hospital for a low white blood cell count, zero neutrophils, and plenty of opportunistic infections with no end in sight. I’m raising money to help pay for my lodging, which I’m doing to be closer to the hospital. NO PRESSURE at all, but if you’d like: gofund.me/23f3543a
Donate to Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital, organized by Esmé Weijun Wang
My name is Esme Weijun Wang and I'm an author, speaker, and teacher. My hus… Esmé Weijun Wang needs your support for Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital
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December 7, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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Hooray for You Dreamed of Empires by @alvaroenrigue.bsky.social on @nytimes.com top 10 of 2024! Read this book!

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...
The 10 Best Books of 2024
The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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& today I’m in “By the Book,” which I’ve read for years. It’s up online now & in print this weekend in the Sunday Book Review

am beyond grateful 🖤 there’s more about Exhibit here:

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635517...
An illustration by Rebecca Clarke of a Korean woman with long black hair and black eyeliner BY THE BOOK R.O. Kwon: ‘I Want More of People’s Bodies, Especially in Fiction’ To write “Exhibit,” the queer novelist says she had to pretend that no one would read it. “By writing things I’m afraid of saying, I might stand a chance of voicing what I, too, really need and long to see in words.”
June 13, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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I cannot overstate how good 'You Dreamed of Empires,' like 'Sudden Death' before it, is.
A Clash of Civilizations Brought to Life
For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs and Spanish conquistadors is the obsession of a lifetime. He brings it to life in “You Dreamed of E...
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”
‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’
The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2023 at 11:39 AM
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Bryan Washington and Ocean Vuong at Center for Fiction, talking Bryan’s spectacular new novel, FAMILY MEAL. Out now!
October 19, 2023 at 8:29 PM
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Bryan Washington on tour for his new novel, Family Meal!
September 21, 2023 at 3:15 PM
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pre-orders are up for my new novel & here’s the cover, EXHIBIT will be out in May ‘24!!!

EXHIBIT has been an 8-year obsession & it’s full of desire & ambition & revenge & queer exuberance & I’m so glad to get to share it with y’all 🖤💌

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635517/exhibit-by-r-o-kwon/
Cover of a novel, EXHIBIT, by R.O. Kwon, coming May 2024. Image of the torso & thigh of a woman whose elbow is jutting out, with what looks like long black hair but resolves into a strip of black paint
September 19, 2023 at 6:19 PM