What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of?
There, when a sentence strikes me or a thought grabs hold, I can look up, especially when I am in my backyard and the trees surround me, and see more than just walls. Reading outside, in a quiet place, with a glass of Irish whiskey and a cigar. And I love seeing these two books as part of one answer.ĭescribe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). I also read Jan Carew’s “Black Midas.” I love the rhythm of his sentences. I can’t seem to let go of the character, Arabella Donn. Last summer, I found myself reading Thomas Hardy’s “Jude the Obscure.” Right before the country shut down, I joined this amazing reading group with some of my closest friends, and we started with this novel. I am also haunted by the tree of ghosts in the novel, of all of those who didn’t die right and how that baby, Kayla, quieted them, if just for a moment.Īre there any classic novels that you only recently read for the first time? When she writes about home (we are both from the Mississippi Gulf Coast) I feel it in my gut. I am attracted to the economy of her prose - words never get in the way of the intensity of the emotion. It is a novel that feels completely of our time and, without strain or pretense, carries forward the power of our literary tradition. Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing.” I keep returning to this book. Ralph Eubanks, “A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape,” Sarah Bakewell, “How to Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer” and Edwidge Danticat, “The Farming of Bones.”
So right now I have Octavia Butler’s “Patternmaster,” W. I tend to read several books at once (returning to one or the other depending on my mood). It is a masterpiece at the level of form and substance.” Trauma and wound saturate his sentences, and his memory fails him in places.
King’s assassination and the emergence of Black Power. Glaude, the author of “Begin Again,” says that “No Name in the Street” (1972) “tries to offer an account of what happened between Little Rock, Dr.
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