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Articles by Lydia Peelle
A Dystopian America Where a Woman Who Can Read and Write Wields Special Power
SCRIBE By Alyson Hagy 157 pp. Graywolf Press. Paper, $16. American literature needs modernization, pronto. We need female lead characters and female voices, not only to rectify the male skew created by centuries of gender inequality, but also because women make supreme heroes, and it is high time we recognize that fact. In “Scribe,” a slim and dense novel about an American dystopia, Alyson Hagy gives us both. Stories have always had the power to shape and transform our world.
A Thank-You Note to Books in General (And Our 27 Current Favorites Specifically) | musing on WordPress.com
Two little girls meet in dance class and become fast friends, until one proves to be a much better dancer and a much less stable person and the whole thing falls apart. Zadie Smith proves that great literature can also be a great read. This book is a joy. – Recommended by Ann Patchett A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life Want a laugh-out-loud book about depression? A feel-good book about LSD? An engaging look at chemistry, history, and law?
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THE BUTCHER’S HOOK By Janet Ellis 347 pp. Pegasus, $25.95. Photo The sonnets of John Donne provide a brooding counterpoint to the gruesome turns of this nervy historical novel. Ellis’s calculating 19-year-old narrator, Anne Jaccob, dwells in what may be the bleakest house in 18th-century London, shadowed with the family’s grief over Anne’s dead toddler brother, the frailty of her serially miscarrying mother and the caterwauling of her abusive father.
Book Review - Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self - By Danielle Evans - NYTimes.com
Danielle Evans’s whip-smart first story collection charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition dubiously known as being a grown-up. Told from a close distance, these stories lack the rich patina of hindsight, their pleasures coming instead from an immediacy and an engaging voice. They evoke the thrill of an all-night conversation with your hip, frank, funny college roommate. Evans follows girls and young women who are intelligent, gutsy and black.
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