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I’m not old enough to have read The Great Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye when they were first printed. They were old classics, well deconstructed and mythologized long before I was even born. But reading Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, I felt like this must be what it was like to read The Great Gatsby on it’s first printing. Like you are in the presence of something significant, right before the world notices. Right before everyone wants to devour and dismantle and explain and use this book as a way to reflect on their own lives, or the time period. This book will be the kind of novel that dissertations are written on and tenured professors build their careers around. And with good reason.  Read more >

I hated every minute of reading this book. But I think I was supposed to hate it. The Kid by Sapphire is the follow up novel to her brutal classic, Push. Push told the story of Precious Jones, a young severely abused obese girl who turns her life around despite enormous hurdles.  Read more >