Work even when it’s a labor of love is still work. Let’s begin at the writer’s desk. Pull up a chair and join Lorine Niedecker in “Poet’s Work” as she follows her grandfather’s advice to “learn a trade.” Next stop, we’ll travel to farm country. Meet Austin Smith’s “Halverson Brothers,” sworn enemies united by a deep love of the family farm they seek to divide. You tell us: Do work and family mix?
Can the arts help us reexamine our past and come to terms with injustice? Can music, painting, film, literature and other mediums serve as tools for social change by helping us take a fresh look at our history and our personal beliefs?The Northampton.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The
Gotham Book Prize, an annual award created to encourage and honor writing about New York City in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, today announced the ten finalists for the first annual winner. A jury made up of leading New Yorkers and authors, including novelist Melissa Rivero and poet Safiya Sinclair, nominated a short list of ten eligible books, including:
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha
Kings County by David Goodwillie
You Again by Debra Jo Immergut
The City We Became by N.K Jemisin
I posted a picture of my rarely used kayak on Facebook late at night. I could sell this on Craigslist and make some cash, I wrote, but I’d rather see it bring joy to a friend. Then I slept. By the morning, fourteen people had responded sayi
You Again by Debra Jo Immergut (Titan, £8.99).
It features in-house corporate illustrator Abby, who lives in New York with her husband and teenage sons. Middle-aged, a bit tired and a bit bored, she and her husband both started out as artists but life happened to them and now they have “proper” jobs.
It’s not a disagreeable existence at all but then Abby starts to see herself around town. It’s not someone reminiscent of her, it’s actually her, aged 22. Quite apart from the disturbing impossibility of the situation, there’s the dilemma: should she approach her old self? And if she does, what should she tell her?