Anita Felicelli is the author of the novel Chimerica and Love Songs for a Lost Continent, a short story collection.
Tommy Orange and California Book Club host John Freeman were joined by poet Kaveh Akbar to talk about Orange’s novel.
Natashia Deón’s The Perishing and Venita Blackburn’s How to Wrestle a Girl give voice to powerful Black women characters.
This week's California Book Club newsletter includes a close read of the opening of The Woman Warrior and Maxine Hong
The author of A Paradise Built in Hell argues for our interdependence by showing how generously people behave during disasters.
A Paradise Built in Hell lights the way for gatherings during the pandemic.
Rebecca Solnit examines disasters to argue for resistance of an order controlled by elites
Here are six books whose themes intersect with Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell. Read them next.
A Paradise Built in Hell asks people to show the same cooperation in everyday life that they demonstrate in a catastrophe.
This week’s CBC newsletter previews titles by Maxine Hong Kingston, Tommy Orange, and Héctor Tobar.
Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel, Radiant Fugitives, is a bold and engaging work.
Red Light Lit’s reading series, journal, and books deliver a pleasing, emotional experience.
In 19 essays written over two decades, Rachel Kushner’s The Hard Crowd is a “gallery of souls.”
