“Registers of Illuminated Villages” was the stand out work as part of two weeks of dedicated poetry events at Literati Bookstore.
Ashley Tomaszewski
Daily Arts Writer
Books
Billy Joel's and Elton John’s Face to Face tour came to Buffalo, New York, in March of 2010, and it was the first concert I ever attended. Sitting eagerly in the stands of the massive, sold-out HSBC Arena, I was 12 years old and knew the majority of the men’s discographies by heart.
Straight from the title, “Lion Cross Point” places high literary stock in animals. Birds, mammals and sea creatures populate its pages, enclosed by prose in this paper zoo.
It’s almost impossible to read Meg Wolitzer’s latest novel, “The Female Persuasion,” and not see it as thematically inextricable from our present political moment.
In another life, Curtis Sittenfeld could have been a psychologist. Instead, she became a writer — and thank god she did. Sittenfeld is a keen, careful observer of human behavior and her first collection of short stories, “You Think It, I’ll Say It,” is aptly named.
A gloriously stunning debut novel, Jana Casale’s “The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky” follows Leda, a college student in Boston, as she navigates her life and identity over the years.
Two weeks ago, The Daily spoke with award-winning author Weike Wang, whose debut novel “Chemistry” is a sparse, sharply written and deeply reflective character study of a young woman struggling with pursuing a doctorate in the eponymous field.
‘Lawn Boy’ elevates the traditional young adult novel with its introspective narrator and avoidance of cliche, shallow plotlines.
Feelings of rebirth or emergence often go along with the beginnings of spring, which is in many ways a period of transition.
Readers will be just as invested in the narrative of Leah’s journey to discovering the truth about her husband as they will about her journey to re-discovering herself.