Welcome to #ReadWithMC Marie Claire s virtual book club. It s nice to have you! In January, we re reading Danielle Evans s The Office of Historical Corrections,
a collection of six mesmerizing short stories and a novella centered on race, grief, love, and identity.
Read an excerpt from the book, below, then find out how to participate in our virtual book club
. (You really don t have to leave your couch!)
When Lyssa was seven, her mother took her to see the movie where the mermaid wants legs, and when it ended Lyssa shook her head and squinted at the prince and said,
Why would she leave her family for that? which for years contributed to the prevailing belief that she was sentimental or softhearted, when in fact she just knew a bad trade when she saw one. The whole ocean for one man. Not that she knew much about the ocean; Lyssa had been born in a landlocked state, and at thirty it seemed the closest she might get to the sea was her job working the gift shop in the lobby of
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“People without a history are rootless and easy to blow away,” explains Joan E. Biren, better known as JEB, the documentary photographer and filmmaker behind the groundbreaking photography collection Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians. For the first time in 40 years, Eye to Eye, the first known photography book depicting only out lesbians photographed […]
Our contributors, from across our quarterly print issues and our website, read as widely and wildly as they write. Here, they tell us about the books that moved them most in this strange year.Â
Itâs a privilege, of course, to spend time thinking and writing about some of my favorite books that were published during this most absurd and solitaryâmost mendacious, violent, Americanâof years, but Iâm grateful to the following artists, among others, for sustaining my spirit. Iâve come to realize how important, even more crucial than usual, short forms have been for me in a time defined by so much precarity. The idea of reading a story or a poem, simply that, has felt attainable, and the act has reliably provided me with nourishment. Danielle Evansâs second book of stories,