Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, Victoria, BC This stunning book kept me guessing at every turn. It begins on a sugar plantation in Barbados, when an 11-year old slave, Wash, is plucked from his unrelenting work by his master’s brother to be his own assistant. Titch is a scientist, and Wash’s life is about to …
On Tuesday February 3, it was announced that Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, will publish Go Set a Watchman, a 304-page novel featuring characters from Harper’s debut– and thus far, famously only– novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, set 20 years later in the same fictional Southern town. Although as of the writing of this post …
Thanks to the good folks at 49 Writers in Alaska, we learned about this wonderful article in the New York Times from May 29, proselytizing the joys of catching a poet in “midcareer.” After using a great baseball analogy to describe what it’s like to read a seasoned poet, the Times highlights exactly five recent …
