The Voice of Secondary Trauma
In his review of Bilal Tanweer’s The Scatter Here is Too Great, Jess Row writes about the trauma that’s influenced so many of Pakistan’s novelists:Pakistan is a country where the fact of suffering is...
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Your Face in Mine by Jess Row
In 1959, John Howard Griffin, a white journalist from Texas, used a combination of dyes, drugs, and exposure to UV lamps to darken his skin and pass as African-American in the segregated Deep South, in...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, recent winner of the 2014 Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction and the 2013 Goldsmiths Prize, isn’t your typical coming-of-age story. According to Marthine Satris’s...
View ArticleWriting the Third Rail
My teacher’s point was, “Don’t write about race. It’s not worth it. It’s the third rail.”Over at Guernica, Grace Bello interviews Jess Row about his new book, Your Face In Mine, writing about race as a...
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Notable NYC: 4/6–4/12
Saturday 4/6: KC Trommer presents We Call Them Beautiful and talks with Danielle Lazarin. BookCulture – LIC, 6 p.m., free. Caleb Beckwith, Eugene Lim, and Alan Davies join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar,...
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Notable NYC: 8/3–8/9
Monday 8/5: Marcy Dermansky presents Very Nice and Julia Phillips presents Disappearing Earth. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free. Jia Tolentino presents Trick Mirror with Doreen St. Félix. Books Are...
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Notable NYC: 8/10–8/16
Monday 8/12: Angie Cruz, Xuan Juliana Wang, Julia Philips, Leland Cheuk, and Annabel Graham join the Franklin Park Reading Series. Damion Searls joins the Books Beneath the Bridge reading series along...
View ArticleNotable Los Angeles: 9/16–9/22
Monday 9/16: Rachel Cline reads from and signs The Question Authority. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. Meg Waite Clayton discusses and signs The Last Train to London. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Book...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 9/18–9/24
Wednesday 9/18: Don’t miss this week’s Local Book Pick event! Carolina De Robertis will be reading from her new novel, Cantoras. A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland at 7 p.m. Thursday 9/19: Want to...
View ArticleNotable Philadelphia: 11/12–11/18
Tuesday 11/12: Blue Stoop will present Jaquira Díaz, author of Ordinary Girls, in conversation with Carmen Maria Machado. 6:30 p.m. at Penn Book Center. The Free Library will present readings by Saeed...
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