The power of Ann Petry: “the issues . . . she faces resonate with our times”
.@Hanna_Jameson for @CrimeReads: Read as dystopian fiction, Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH "illustrates, with devastating precision, how adept we are at creating our own apocalyptic events."
Stony the Road: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
Forrest Gander: Writing from the edge of the abyss—the books that influenced Be With
Always Coming Home: The Ursula K. Le Guin book that breaks the novel form “wide open”
Henry James, “Brooksmith”
