Sharp, Christina. Ordinary Notes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
I read an excerpt of this book online and loved it, so I ordered the book itself. I tore through it this past weekend. It is a must-read for anyone interested in anti-racism.
Zambreno, Kate. The Light Room: On Art and Care. New York: Riverhead Books, 2023.
I love Zambreno’s work, so I pre-ordered this book when I heard about it and it arrived yesterday. It’s worth noting that even though the jacket cover copy makes it sound like creative nonfiction, the Library of Congress cataloguing lists it as fiction. Zambreno is well-known for refusing to distinguish between these genres (e.g., when she sent her book Drifts to her publisher she told them they could publish it as either one; they chose fiction), so it is interesting to see how the relationship between them plays out in the book’s paratext. Also, the book’s subtitle only appears on the front cover. It is not an official part of the Library of Congress’s entry.
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