We’re still a few weeks from the equinox, but it sure seems like summer is upon us. Does that mean beach reads are in season? We mean…it might, if beach reads are your thing. Maybe beach reads aren’t your thing, though; that’s okay, too. We’ve got some June book recommendations for you here; hopefully you’ll find something enlightening, entertaining, or energizing on this very list.
In our morning reading: interviews with Alisa Alering and Helen Phillips, Jo Walton’s book recommendations, and more.
In our afternoon reading: talking with Irene Solà and Mara Faye Lethem, fiction and art converging, and more.
Toni Sala’s The Boys is an examination of how a tragedy affects both those closest to it and those at a further remove. It’s set in the aftermath of a car accident that kills two young men, and traces the lives of four characters who grapple with its effects. (You can read an excerpt from it at Tin House.) Sala also uses the novel to dissect a particularly toxic strain of masculinity that several of the characters channel. To learn more, […]