Summer Tales with Natalie Díaz
Poet Natalie Díaz will be virtually coming to Rutgers for a live Zoom session! Register Today Díaz won an American Book Award for her first collection of poems, When My … Read More
Poet Natalie Díaz will be virtually coming to Rutgers for a live Zoom session! Register Today Díaz won an American Book Award for her first collection of poems, When My … Read More
A heads-up: This post, like Machado’s memoir, discusses intimate-partner abuse. There are two distinctive formal features of Carmen Maria Machado’s In The Dream House: A Memoir that are apparent from early … Read More
In a recent New York Times opinion article entitled Banning My Book Won’t Protect Your Child Carmen Maria Machado shared that parents in a school district demanded the removal of her … Read More
Acclaimed author Carmen Maria Machado is (virtually) coming to Rutgers! Register Today! Machado’s smash hit debut story collection Her Body and Other Parties and award-winning memoir In The Dream House … Read More
Short stories wrap everything up. Short stories leave you wanting more. Short stories quickly move from one topic to the next. Short stories are neat and tidy. Short stories are … Read More
Although published pre-COVID, Ling Ma’s brilliant debut novel Severance eerily mirrors the pandemic that has upended our world for the past year and a half. In Severance, Shen Fever is … Read More
Because of my years of experience running book clubs, I have somewhat of a reputation. My friends and family jokingly call me a walking encyclopedia of books––a side effect of … Read More
Celebrating Poetry Month in April 2021 inspired us at Books We Read to develop a new library guide called Books We Read: Poetry. The guide offers suggested poems as well … Read More
I don’t usually “get” poetry. I secretly scoffed at my friends in undergrad who called themselves poets. The Poetry Club seemed like a contest to out-pretentious and out-angst one another. … Read More
Looking to get into poetry but not sure where to start? We’ve got some ideas, cross-posted here from our upcoming LibGuide called Books We Read: Poetry. Take a look at … Read More