BOOKS I READ: The Best American Short Stories 2023 selected by Min Jin Lee (2023). Min Jin Lee’s outstanding introduction starts off this collection of twenty short stories…
BOOKS I READ: These Precious Days by Ann Patchett (2021). A touching collection of essays about her fathers (yes, plural), old friends, and new friends. The title story, and the…
BOOKS I READ: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004). The novel is a long letter by Reverend John Ames to his young son. Written in diary form, he memorializes stories about his father…
BOOKS I READ: Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather (1912). Bartley Alexander, a renown bridge engineer, lives in Boston with his wife, Winifred, often traveling to oversee his various…