Alexander Sorondo

2 months ago | publicseminar.org | Marisol Delarosa |Mary Karmelek |Alexander Sorondo |Josephine Houman

Hollywood Inn sign, Motel Drive, Fresno, California (1987) | John Margolies / Library of Congress / No known restrictionsI was prepared to laugh my way through Danzy Senna’s sixth novel, Colored Television (Riverhead, 2024), after reading review after review touting the book as a comedy.

Dec 11, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Luis Jaramillo |Alexander Sorondo |Mitchell Abidor |Edwin Frank

Cover image of The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo (Primero Sueño Press and Atria Books, 2024)On the bridge to Juárez, Marta peers down at the Rio Grande trickling along its concrete ditch. The air is heavy with diesel exhaust. People walk across the bridge carrying bright blue and red plastic bags, pushing granny carts toward El Paso. Marta thinks back to when she was a girl, and women from Juárez would knock on Olga’s door, looking for work.

Oct 17, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Emma Minor |Josephine Houman |Alexander Sorondo |Mat Cusick

“Allegory of Sight“ (1659) | Jan van Kessel / CC0 1.0Like William Blake, Becca Rothfeld believes that “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”  A widely praised young critic (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Prize for Criticism and the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism), Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for The Washington Post, an editor at the Point, and a contributing editor at Boston Review.

Sep 25, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Alexander Sorondo |Chloe Cheimets |Adam Mansbach |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Joyce Carol Oates at Brooklyn Book Festival | editrrix / CC BY-SA 2.0One of the challenges for a reviewer looking to write about Joyce Carol Oates’s most recent books is the context of her larger body of work, which is so huge that a mere mention of it can eclipse the new release. The two titles released this year join more than 60 novels (under three pen names), plus volumes of essays, poetry, stories, a memoir about widowhood, a collection of diaries, and scores of edited anthologies.

Jul 31, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Alexander Sorondo

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