A Year of Favorites: Michele Filgate

A Year of Favorites

Books! I love them. I live for words and I live for stories that can move me and tell me how to exist in this complicated, fucked-up world that we call home. Here are ten books that challenged me, entertained me, or stayed with me long after I read the final paragraph. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud Earlier this year, Messud received some attention as the literary world argued about unlikable characters. Nora isn’t an unlikable character. She’s likable […]

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A Year of Favorites: Michele Filgate’s Best Books of 2012

Reading is a major part of my life, both for work and for pleasure. I read constantly; while walking down a crowded sidewalk in Brooklyn, while squished against the door on a packed F train, while walking from the subway to Community Bookstore, and yes, even while crossing the street. You know you’re finally a New Yorker when you try to maximize your reading time, reading every available moment that isn’t spent working or socializing or writing or, you know, […]

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