You understand something these people don’t, and you feel afraid, I hope, for these people, but you also feel some comfort that the world has been explained to you. So it satisfies the reader’s curiosity but preserves the characters’ bafflement. Photograph by Jared Soares for The New Yorker Jason Reynolds, the author of many. And the book will tell the reader, oh, here’s part of the explanation. By Rumaan Alam AugI write to Black children, Reynolds says. Something happens in the book there’s an unexplained incident. Rumaan Alam: The voice of the book knows something the people don’t, and it starts to feed those details to the reader at a certain point. Want to get away from it all? Maybe rent a house somewhere remote, with no access to the internet, overlooking the woods and a swimming pool? But what if that heavenly vacation goes wrong-really wrong-in a way that has global consequences? In Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind, that’s exactly what happens, starting with an unexpected late-night knock on the door that leads to the shifting of reality itself. With an immersive sound experience designed around each episode, Bookable takes you on an audio exploration of a book-usually new, sometimes classic and occasionally obscure but always worth knowing about. Everyone is welcome.Bookable features established authors and emerging talent in conversation with host and author Amanda Stern, perhaps best known for creating the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series at New York’s famous Joe’s Pub and Symphony Space. If you fancy it, please join up and participate. Whenever possible I hope to have the author, or another prominent voice on the subject, join the conversation.

I will post some questions/quotes to get things started, but I would love for this to grow into an open discussion with and between you all. The plan is to select and read a book every month, then discuss the work during the month’s last week (to give everyone time to read it!).

There is so much amazing stuff out there! Funny, inspiring, sad, thought-provoking, empowering! I’ve been discovering so much that, at times, I’ve felt like my head was about to explode… I decided to start a Feminist book club, as I want to share what I’m learning and hear your thoughts too.

OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM.Īs part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM.Īs part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading as many books and essays about equality as I can get my hands on.

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