Sarah Weinman, Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of ReckoningĪs previously recommended: The last decade has seen true crime as a genre-be it audio, in print, or on screen-grow into a billion-dollar industry, as demand for digestible, narrativized accounts of humanity’s darker side has proven bottomless. Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Jamaica Kincaid, Jacqueline Woodson, and many more, this collection is for anyone who’s ever tried to put thought and feeling into words. Ralph Eubanks, Angela Flournoy, Nikki Giovanni, Terrance Hayes, Mitchell S. Poet Jericho Brown has assembled an all-star lineup of Black writers holding forth on the nature of their art and how it relates to who they are in the world. Jericho Brown, How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and SkillĪs previously recommended: It’s right there in the title. I did not parent through a pandemic (I do not parent at all), but that didn’t prevent me from appreciating Zambreno’s wise, multifaceted musings about isolation and nature, making art and making humans. And so says the Nobel Laureate of Kate Zambreno’s latest, a memoir about parenting and creating art through the precarity of a pandemic and climate change. When Annie Ernaux says you’ve captured a new form-“a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup”-you know you’re doing something right. Now that it’s July, the Literary Hub staff is looking forward to all the books coming out in the rest of 2023-from fiction to nonfiction to poetry. Somehow, the year is already half over-time flies when you’re reading good books.

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