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Favorite Reads of 2020
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In this year of slowness, thank god for books to make the world a little larger again. I read several classics for the first time—Shelley’s Frankenstein and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day—all of which felt important to return to the source material, to see how these books shaped those that came after them. And I delved into new books from favorite authors whose words I will always seek out—like Kelly Schirmann’s The New World and Heather Christle’s The Crying Book—and I branched out into mystery and romance books because they kept pages turning and tidied everything up so neatly at the end, which if not my usual fare, was sorely needed in this strange year. But since I do love a list, here are the books that sung to me / inspired me / shaped me:
1. Exquisitely told and inventive in form, Women Talking by Miriam Toews centers on a group of Mennonite women in South America who discover they're being drugged and raped during the night by the men in their community. While the men are away, the women meet to decide whether they will stay and forgive their attackers, as their community’s religious leaders ask them to, or leave the colony and start anew. Their conversation over the course of two days questions the role of women, what freedom and forgiveness really mean, how to fulfill one’s calling as a woman, mother, and believer, whether one must choose one thing over another, and whether staying or leaving carries the greater risk. It’s a thoughtful and creative approach to hard questions and the complicated reasons why there’s never a right answer.
2. Ilya Kaminsky's collection, Dancing in Odessa, was one of the first books of contemporary poetry I ever read, lent to me by a friend in college, and I remember being stunned at what poetry could be and do. Deaf Republic stuns in the same way. The poems are incredibly cinematic, telling the story of an occupied town and its people and a couple who fall in love. When a young, deaf boy is shot by the soldiers, the entire town pretends deafness in rebellion, finding excuses to not understand the soldiers. They bear witness to the boy’s death and honor his life. Though a fictional town, the call to political action, to really see those who are being oppressed and stand for justice with them, is resonant for any time and place. Plus, Ilya writes the most beautiful love poems.
3. Another cinematically-inclined poetry book is GennaRose Nethercott’s The Lumberjack’s Dove. In this long poem/myth/fable, a lumberjack accidentally cuts off his hand, which turns into a dove, and then a story parts ways. The lumberjack is not just a lumberjack and the hand-turned-dove is not just a hand-turned-dove, and the story visits both an operating room and a witch, and the story, of course, is one you've heard before and one that brings surprise and wonder to the telling. I simply adored it.
"Living creatures believe they own something as soon as they love it. They refuse to believe otherwise, no matter how many times a beloved vanishes."
4. I fell in love—hard—with The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and her exquisite, queer love story between Achilles and Patroclus. Miller’s writing is wonderful and after reading her novel Circe as well—another fantastic retelling of Greek myths—I spent the remainder of the year searching for a novel that compared.
5. Some books meet you in the right moment. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey is a slow and attentive book on small things, which in 2020’s period of waiting and uprootedness was a gift. Due to chronic illness, Bailey finds herself confined to a bed with little to do. Her friend brings her a potted plant and a snail whose pace of life, matching her own, becomes a comfort and lessons her loneliness. As she watches, she learns intimately the snail's eating and sleeping habits, its daily adventures, and the conditions it best thrives in. Later she delves into the literature and science of gastropods and weaves her notes in with her own observations and stories of the snail. Her writing is light and funny and holds such tenderness for this very small creature.
"In the History of Animals, Aristotle noted that snail teeth are 'sharp, and small, and delicate.' My snail possessed around 2,640 teeth, so I'd add the word plentiful to Aristotle's description....With only thirty-two adult teeth, which had to last the rest of my life, I found myself experiencing tooth envy toward my gastropod companion. It seemed far more sensible to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession. Nonetheless, dental appointments were one of my favorite adventures, as I could count on being recumbent. I could see myself settling into the dental chair, opening my mouth for my dentist, and surprising him with a human-sized radula."
6. Insecurity System by Sara Wainscott was one of my favorite books published in 2020. The poems in it make up four crowns—a series of sonnets in which the last line of each poem becomes the first line (or an echo of it) of the next. The playfulness of the form as well as the topics give the book an energy: Sara muses on time travel, levitation, memory, flowers ("people who read poems know a rose / is how the poet drags in genitalia"), motherhood, Mars, and mythical transformations (children tell their mothers they have turned to seals “and it is true”). Sara is funny and wry, and yet she also captures some difficult emotions of grief and depression, a struggle with complacency amid daily obligations “Sentences become drawn out affairs / but I am doing what I can / to answer one word each day.” The poems move from the mundane to a hard feeling and then onward to wonder and a bit of the fantastical, which I guess is just how life goes—I love how these emotions are all rolled together and always shifting.
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7. Asiya Wadud’s powerful long poem Syncope is one I’ve returned to often throughout the year. She tells the story of 72 refugees who fled Tripoli in an inflatable boat in 2011 and were stranded for 14 days, despite the presence of 38 maritime vessels who could have rescued them, but didn’t. Instead, only 11 passengers survived. Syncope is both an indictment against those who did not act and a eulogy for the dead, returning humanity to people who were deemed not worth saving but who were “luminous in that / we were each born under the / fabled light of some star.”
“We began as 72 ascendants by that I mean we were a collective many each bound for greatness merely in the fact that we were each still living”
8. Eula Biss’s Having and Being Had is a thoughtful and exploratory conversation about capitalism and its effects on what we do and how we think. In a series of short vignettes, Eula picks apart what consumption, work, accounting, and investment mean on a personal and everyday level (albeit a white, middle class level). Who defines value among boys trading Pokemon cards and how did Monopoly's origins in economic injustice shift to pride in bankrupting players and if one of Eula's favorite things about being a new house owner is easy access to a laundry machine, is her house merely a $400,000 container for one washer and dryer? Her essays bounce from work that is valued, unseen or shamed; the perceptions and realities of being poor or rich; our approach to gift-giving and art-making and pleasure—weaving together research, observations, and conversations with friends.
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9. In Grief Sequence, poet Prageeta Sharma’s grieves the loss of her husband in a kind of journal, tracing the memories of his diagnosis, the hard and normal days, the days before diagnosis, and the days after he is gone during which she tries to make sense of her new reality: “How gauche it is to be in this body being unseen by you now,” she writes. “You are not you anymore and I am trying to understand how a human with feelings has disappeared.” Her writing is excellent but it is hard to sit with and next to her pain, and it makes me wonder: when does one read such a book? When you’ve also lost a beloved to cancer? To be in conversation with someone who has, with Prageeta? Do you read for the sake of the living or to honor a body who was once here? Prageeta writes, “Poetry and grief are the same: you are taught to care about it when it happens to you.” I don’t know who to recommend this book to, but it spoke to me, and I’m glad she wrote it, as a monument, of sorts, to a specific togetherness and to a person.
10. The Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis is a strange and sweet book about a race of genetically-engineered dogs, created initially to be soldiers, who move to New York in the ‘90s while still holding onto the customs and dress of nineteenth-century Prussia, which is to say: I don't know if I ever would have picked this book up had a friend not recommended it. Told through news clippings, letters, journal entries, an opera(!), and the first-person account of a human who befriends them, their story has echoes of Frankenstein as the monster dogs reflect on their creator and what it is to be human, to have purpose and hope, to wrestle with a clouded past and an uncertain future. "It's a terrible thing to be a dog and know it," writes one monster dog scholar after some of the dogs begin to revert back to their primal state. I loved the varied forms, the piecing together of the dog’s history, and the surreal mark they left in the book’s world and my world.
For more books throughout the year, follow along on Instagram at book.wreck.
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By KARL KIRCHWEY Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic,” a poetry collection framed as a two-act play, proffers deafness as a source of strength and resistance against oppression. Published: April 6, 2019 at 01:00AM from NYT Books https://nyti.ms/2FTApDS
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By KARL KIRCHWEY Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic,” a poetry collection framed as a two-act play, proffers deafness as a source of strength and resistance against oppression. Published: April 6, 2019 at 04:30AM from NYT Books https://nyti.ms/2FTApDS
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Colson Whitehead, Marlon James in Running for National Book Awards
Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Nickel Boys,” based on the horrific history of a Florida reform school, was nominated for the National Book Award for fiction on Friday, three years after the writer won the prize for his book “The Underground Railroad.”
He was the only author in the fiction category to have been previously nominated and joins nine other writers in an eclectic list, including five nominees making their fiction debut and a genre-bending speculative thriller.
Whitehead was joined by a few other literary heavyweights, among them Marlon James, who won the Booker Prize in 2015, and Laila Lalami, whose novel “The Moor’s Account” was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Among the first-time novelists, the poet Ocean Vuong was nominated for “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” his epistolary novel about a Vietnamese immigrant family. The New York Times staff writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner was nominated for her tragicomic divorce saga, “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” which chronicles the romantic antics and inner turmoil of a physician whose wife goes missing, leaving him to care for their kids. And Julia Phillips made the longlist for her widely acclaimed debut, “Disappearing Earth,” a story about two sisters who are lured into a stranger’s car and disappear in Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula.
Two debut short-story collections were nominated: Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s collection “Sabrina & Corina,” which explores the lives of Latinas of indigenous ancestry, and Kimberly King Parsons’s “Black Light,” a set of stories set in her home state of Texas, which has drawn comparisons to works by Karen Russell and Denis Johnson.
Also longlisted for fiction were Helen Phillips’s “The Need,” a provocative thriller about the agony and ecstasy of motherhood, and Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise,” a book about students at a performing arts high school that explores the blurry line between fact and fiction.
On the nonfiction list, nominees included “Solitary,” the memoir of Albert Woodfox, a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement; Sarah M. Broom’s memoir “The Yellow House”; and Hanif Abdurraqib’s “Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest.” The nominees for young people’s literature included both rising stars like Akwaeke Emezi and beloved best-selling authors, among them Jason Reynolds, Kwame Alexander and Laurie Halse Anderson.
The shortlist of finalists in each category are scheduled to be announced on Oct. 8, and the winners on Nov. 20 at an awards ceremony in New York City.
Below is a complete list of the 2019 nominees in five categories: fiction, nonfiction, translated literature, young people’s literature and poetry.
Fiction
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “Fleishman Is in Trouble”
Susan Choi, “Trust Exercise”
Kali Fajardo-Anstine, “Sabrina & Corina: Stories”
Marlon James, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf”
Laila Lalami, “The Other Americans”
Kimberly King Parsons, “Black Light: Stories”
Helen Phillips, “The Need”
Julia Phillips, “Disappearing Earth”
Ocean Vuong, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
Colson Whitehead, “The Nickel Boys”
Nonfiction
Hanif Abdurraqib, “Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest”
Sarah M. Broom, “The Yellow House”
Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Thick: And Other Essays”
Carolyn Forché, “What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance”
Greg Grandin, “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America”
Patrick Radden Keefe, “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland”
Iliana Regan, “Burn the Place: A Memoir”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership”
David Treuer, “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present”
Albert Woodfox with Leslie George, “Solitary”
Translated Literature
Naja Marie Aidt, “When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book”
Translated by Denise Newman
Eliane Brum, “The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections”
Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty
Nona Fernández, “Space Invaders”
Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Vigdis Hjorth, “Will and Testament”
Translated by Charlotte Barslund
Khaled Khalifa, “Death Is Hard Work”
Translated by Leri Price
László Krasznahorkai, “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming”
Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
Scholastique Mukasonga, “The Barefoot Woman”
Translated by Jordan Stump
Yoko Ogawa, “The Memory Police”
Translated by Stephen Snyder
Pajtim Statovci, “Crossing”
Translated by David Hackston
Olga Tokarczuk, “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Young People’s Literature
Kwame Alexander; illustrations by Kadir Nelson, “The Undefeated”
Laurie Halse Anderson, “SHOUT”
Akwaeke Emezi, “Pet”
Cynthia Kadohata; illustrations by Julia Kuo, “A Place to Belong”
Jason Reynolds, “Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks”
Randy Ribay, “Patron Saints of Nothing”
Laura Ruby, “Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All”
Martin W. Sandler, “1919: The Year That Changed America”
Hal Schrieve, “Out of Salem”
Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw, “Kiss Number 8”
Poetry
Dan Beachy-Quick, “Variations on Dawn and Dusk”
Jericho Brown, “The Tradition”
Toi Derricotte, “I”: New and Selected Poems
Camonghne Felix, “Build Yourself a Boat”
Ilya Kaminsky, “Deaf Republic”
Ariana Reines, “A Sand Book”
Mary Ruefle, “Dunce”
Carmen Giménez Smith, “Be Recorder”
Arthur Sze, “Sight Lines”
Brian Teare, “Doomstead Days”
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Poetry: A Soldier Kills a Deaf Boy, and Rebels Respond With a Barricade of Silence
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Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic,” a poetry collection framed as a two-act play, proffers deafness as a source of strength and resistance against oppression. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/books/review/ilya-kaminsky-deaf-republic-poems.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic,” a poetry collection framed as a two-act play, proffers deafness as a source of strength and resistance against oppression. from Latest Information https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/books/review/ilya-kaminsky-deaf-republic-poems.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Poetry: A Soldier Kills a Deaf Boy, and Rebels Respond With a Barricade of Silence
Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic,” a poetry collection framed as a two-act play, proffers deafness as a source of strength and resistance against oppression. from Latest Information https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/books/review/ilya-kaminsky-deaf-republic-poems.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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