Kcrw bookworm4/14/2023 In this book, Rikki Ducornet explores the future of the universe as viewed from spaceships by characters who hardly know their past or their destinies. Science fiction! In a very postmodern form. More: Listen to Atsuro Riley discuss “Heard-Hoard” on Bookworm It's a magnificent followup to his award-winning "Romey's Order" published eleven years ago. ![]() He restores the memories of what he heard-the heard-hoard-to the word-hoard, the mountains of language that ensnare and liberate us all. In what is to my mind the strongest new book of poetry this year, Atsuro Riley universalizes the traumas of childhood in the Carolina mountains. More: Listen to George Saunders discuss “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” on Bookworm This book even taught me, The Bookworm, Michael Silverblatt, a deeper vision of how a short story works. I think this is my favorite book I've ever read about the art of writing fiction! In this book, George Saunders takes seven Russian short stories by the masters - Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev - and leads us through them practically sentence by sentence, until we see how meaning forms and how subtly revelations work in the writing of fiction. George Saunders - “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life” It is a daring novel, written in a beautiful and original dialect, that captures the secret underlying lives we think we already know. This book follows two Black men who are slaves and lovers on a Southern plantation before, during, and after the Civil War. "The Prophets" mixes our interests in new books by people of color and books about sexual diversity. Over 30 years, we may have featured less than 20. Like the number one entry below, "The Prophets" is a first novel - we do very few first novels on Bookworm. More: Listen to Rebecca Sacks discuss “City of a Thousand Gates” on Bookworm The author has studied both Arabic and Hebrew - "City of a Thousand Gates" takes on a daring project, dramatizing irreconcilability and making cultural impossibility soar in language in a way it can't in reality. Sert in Israel among Israelis and Palestinians, this book accomplishes the nearly impossible task of bringing thus-far irreconcilable cultures together. Rebecca Sacks - "City of a Thousand Gates" ![]() ![]() Of the thousands of books published each year, no one has read enough to say which are the best. Critics who use the term "best books" are not thinking. As in past years, this is a list of favorite books of the year.
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