Author Archives: Laura Winkleblack

By Radhika Jones Published Feb. 23, 2021Updated March 1, 2021 KLARA AND THE SUNBy Kazuo Ishiguro About halfway through “Klara and the Sun,” a woman meeting Klara for the first time blurts out the kind of quiet-part-out-loud line we rely on to get … Continue reading →

A novelist’s labored speech signaled an unimaginable diagnosis Sandra G. BoodmanJuly 10, 2021 At first, novelist Cai Emmons thought something might be wrong with her bite. In December 2019, while reading from her latest work at a gathering in Sausalito, … Continue reading →

A Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with Her Mennonite Past How Miriam Toews left the church and freed her voice. (Entire article here🙂 Before Miriam Toews can sit down to write, she needs to walk. Something about the body in motion … Continue reading →

Barack Obama Jack by Marilynne Robinson Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (nonfiction) The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson Luster by Raven Leilani How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang Long Bright River by Liz Moore … Continue reading →

Ben Fountain Soldiers on the Fault Line: War, Rhetoric, and Reality The Seventh Annual David L. Jannetta Distinguished Lecture in War, Literature & the Arts  September 10, 2013 / U.S. Air Force Academy The reason I’m here is because I … Continue reading →

From Kim- Thoughts on How to Be an Anti-Racist As I told many of you on Tuesday (great discussion and I’m getting used to the Zoom meetings) you are the only people I know that have read the Kendi book. … Continue reading →

The memorial service for an American treasure.

Thanks to Margie for sharing this: https://lithub.com/10-debut-novels-nobody-reads-anymore-but-should/ Today is the 36th publication anniversary of Denis Johnson’s debut novel, Angels, a book almost nobody reads (or at least talks about reading, or at least to me) anymore—but should. Because it’s great. And, while … Continue reading →

Thanks to Deb for this meeting summary. YUM  [grits =++!] + such a good book & conversation, + missing you Bookies off traveling or recovering, so before we move on [UNBOUND, Stein]. . . back on August’s 3rd Tuesday, five of us gathered … Continue reading →