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Two little girls in 1973 St. Louis are at the heart of Marisa Silver’s latest novel,
The Mysteries. Miggy is an unfiltered, imaginative kid who can’t be reigned in. Ellen is polite and cautious. She is also loyal to Miggy and her boisterousness. The parents of these girls are living in an unstable and tense time. There is a recession and Watergate simmers on newspaper front pages and televisions. These events add to festering, quiet tensions from these already complicated relationships.
Highlights of the Interview with Marisa Silver
About the character of Miggy and Ellen
She s a powerful, kinetic, charismatic girl who sort of is shaking her fist at all the limitations that are around her life. And for a 7-year-old, there are many, and she wants more than anything to break through them, to do and be more than she s capable of doing and being at her age. Ellen is more beautiful. She s more nervous, I think. But I think that the kind of kid that Miggy is is really appealing
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We’re big fans of essays that combine cultural criticism with memoir, and Larissa Pham’s
Pop Song especially sings when the writer turns her eye to art and pop culture. In her debut book of nonfiction memoir by way of interconnected essays Pham interweaves a recounting of her life thus far with her thoughts on James Turrell, Anne Carson, Frank Ocean, and Agnes Martin (extra points for not mentioning Maggie Nelson in “Blue,” Pham’s essay on Martin). Through her sensitive, curious telling, Pham lobbies for the way in which art can help people learn more about themselves.
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Recent titles of interest:
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO AMERICA: For the Immigrant and the Curious, by Roya Hakakian. (Knopf, $27.) This touching account by an Iranian-born poet details her adopted home’s quirks: money that all looks the same, well-stocked markets where the fruit has no smell.
STAMPEDE: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike, by Brian Castner. (Doubleday, $28.95.) The Yukon gold rush of 1897-98 drew a hundred thousand woefully unprepared migrants to some of the harshest conditions on earth. Thousands died, and few prospered. Castner’s gripping book traces this history.
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