ELIZABETH The Next Level by Leon Neyfakh This is the true story of one man's obsession with an unsuccessful but passionate rapper named Juiceboxxx. It's weird and riveting and really smart! Neyfakh is an editor at Slate and rolls with Lena Dunham's crew, so he's got this quirky Brooklyn intellectual thing going on. I could … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

MOLLY O Tell Me How This Ends Well by David Samuel Levinson I am currently reading David Samuel Levinson's new book Tell Me How This Ends Well, which reads like the home-for-Passover novel I've always wanted but always assumed a Christmas-dominated holiday retail market would never provide for me. I'm mid-way through this darkly funny romp … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

LOJO The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards This week I decided it was time to reread a classic from my childhood that was one of my favorites. I picked up the weirdest one to begin, because why not? The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles is just as magical as I … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

    JASON Arizona Moon: A Novel of Vietnam by J. M. Graham Arizona Moon by J.M. Graham came out this past October and is on the shelves now. I read it as an Advanced Reader Copy and am going through it again. It's a harrowing tale of war set during the Vietnam Conflict; 1967 or … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

MOLLY O Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis This week I am in the midst of long-time activist Angela Davis' latest work, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. This collection brings together interviews, articles, essays, and speeches, … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

TOMOKO The Shades of Magic Trilogy by V.E. Schwab (A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, and A Conjuring of Light) I'm in the middle of the Shades of Magic Trilogy by V.E. Schwab! The trilogy starts with A Darker Shade of Magic, introducing Kell (talented and rare blood magician known as a … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

SUNNY Selected Stories, 1968-1994 by Alice Munro Alice Munro writes about real life with enough insight and truth to call it fiction. The plots to her stories may sound boring on the surface (A father takes his children on his sales route and they make an unusual detour. A librarian was in love. A mother … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

GREGORY Ernesto by Umberto Saba Set in Italy during the last days of the Austrian Empire, a young gay man, Ernesto, enters an affair with an older laborer and finds his identity and life choices in upheaval. Saba’s prose has all the great blunt qualities of mid-20th century stylings, acutely portraying his characters motivations and psychologies … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →