The Adversary, The Class Trip, and The Mustache
I still do not find myself drawn to Carrère’s memoir or autobiographical work. But I am glad that I gave his fiction and true crime a chance.
Literature
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The White Album and Notes to John
I appreciate that her work seems to be suddenly available and back in print. I often find it on shelves and see it arriving at my local independent bookstore.
Gary Indiana
This collection of essays is written with the air of Indiana looking back at his life and taking an inventory of sorts as he acknowledges that he is living in a time that is closer to the end than to the beginning.
Animal Farm
This novel is one of the ones that showed me what a literary statement could be and how vital writing is during the darkest times. It also showed me the absolute striking beauty of the allegorical tale.
Killing Stella
Domestic horror is a sub-genre that allows for so many subtleties and so many facets of the disturbing.
Ghostroots
More powerful than gore, I find an eerie atmosphere is what really makes a collection like Ghostroots tick.
A Sunny Place for Shady People
Enríquez loves a twist ending, and ghosts and horrors found in unlikely places.
Overhead in a Balloon
Gallant clusters the stories like one is hearing about a circle of friends or acquaintances at a party.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted features one of my favourite structures — it is a memoir constructed via vignettes. There are lots of margins here.
Horse Crazy
Not only is this published at a time when LGBT+ relationships were not depicted with any kind of regularity in literature, but it uses a framework that is used frequently in heterosexual romances.