Arts Picks: By Andrew Dansby and Amber Elliott, Staff Writers
1. Chang-rae Lee
Novels by Chang-rae Lee require some patience: The new “My Year Abroad” is his first in seven years. But they’re constructed with such care that they always make the wait worthwhile. His latest focuses on a college dropout, Tiller Bardmon, on an overseas adventure, a “twelve and one-half percent Asian” visiting Asia on a wild, life-changing adventure guided by his mentor, a Chinese-American entrepreneur. He’s joined by Lily King, author of “Writers & Lovers” for a virtual reading and discussion.
When: 7 p.m. Feb. 22
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If you happen to have all of your essential needs covered at the moment, well, good for you. Below you ll find a short list of the best virtual bets coming up to help you pass the time until we re all that lucky. And soon (hopefully) your fellow Houstonians will get a chance to enjoy them, too, as they ll surely be looking for ways to forget this freezing hell as soon as possible.
Last call: Main Street Theater’s production of Caridad Svich’s
The Book of Magdalene will end its digital run on February 21, and it’s a can’t miss.
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The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2021 By PW Staff | Feb 17, 2021
Drawn from the 14,000+ titles in PW s Spring Announcements issue, we asked our reviews editors to pick the most notable books publishing in Spring 2021. Links to reviews are included when available.
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The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove, Mar.) - Nguyen follows his Pulitzer-winning The Sympathizer with a sequel about a Vietnamese refugee in 1980s Paris who becomes a drug dealer on his path to assimilation. The novel earned a starred review from PW.
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June) - Widow herbalist Katharina gets slapped with an accusation of witchcraft in 1618 Germany by a neighbor whom she calls “the Werewolf” in Galchen’s novel of a small town feverish with fear.
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, follows a college student as he tries to reset after a wild junket to China. Below, the Stanford writing professor and author of Native Speaker recommends six tales about encountering new worlds.
The story of Isabel Archer is a classic tale of an American innocent abroad. James ability to draw out the countless complications of a life, as he learned from Turgenev and achieved in singularly gorgeous prose, makes for a riveting and tragic account of this certain young woman affronting her destiny in a culture that she doesn t fully understand or belong to.