Literary Radar
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Ina Garten’s Memoir of Fortune, Work and Being Obsessed With Her Husband | The New York Times | 28/09/24
Many books open with epigraphs. Maybe Plato, the Bible or Oscar Wilde; usually lofty, and generally by a long-dead stranger.
Ina Garten begins her memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” with the following: “Do what you...
2 Books for a Real-Life ‘Brilliant Friend’ | The New York Times | 21/09/24
Dear readers,
Very recently an old friend moved back to Brooklyn after nearly a decade in the South.
In terms of sheer volume of knowledge, she’s one of the people I know best. I remember the breed of large mountain...
Writing between Worlds: Navigating my African and American Identities on The Page | Literary Hub | 07/09/24
If you had known me when I was much younger, and asked how I identified, I would have told you that I was Black. This would have been my way to acknowledge my Blackness in America, being that I was born and raised in this country,...
Smarter Than You Think? On the Literary Side of Friends | Literary Hub | 29/08/24
When you think of Friends, the perennial favorite of young people since 1994, an eternal bastion of comfort for innumerable viewers for thirty years now, living in perpetuity on network television and streaming, you think,...
When Art Talks Back: Jonathan Lethem on Graffiti As Visual and Written Expression | Literary Hub | 26/08/24