This Week's Monstrosity: The Annual Reads of 2023 Post
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I’m sharing quarterlyish peeks at my works in progress and readerly rambles about what I’m reading and loving.
Updates
I don’t often love a “best books” roundup becuase they so often are filled iwth the obvious literary picks and nothing that looks anything remotely like the books I loved that year. But this one from The Atlantic surprised me — it skews literary and nonfiction for sure, but it was full of titles I’d never heard of, and when I got to OUR SHARE OF NIGHT by Mariana Enriquez, I scrambled to add this speculative fiction title to my to-be-reads. It also gives a well deserved nod to Emily Wilson’s revolutionary new translation of The Iliad.
I have been waiting for the heavily stylized, feminist, Frankenstien-inspired film POOR THINGS, starring Emma Stone at her weirdest, all year long and it’s finally here — an interivew.
Passing forward this profile on infamous literary agent Andrew Wylie, known for turning literary talents into celebrities, from The Hot Sheet:
How’s your reading (and writing, if you do that!) been going for you in 2023? Next week I’ll interrupt your holidays to share my annual year in review. (And paid subscribers will be getting an elaboration on the roundup in audio!)
The BookRiot annual Read Harder Challenge is here.
And because it is, after, the holidays, and not just the end of the year crunch time, here’s a gem about the real magic of Santa Claus from Tor.com.
Reading
Yes, still. Thank you for asking.