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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Emma Sarappo
Abigail Hawkes earnestly dreams of disappearing. The teenage protagonist of Emily St. James’s new novel, Woodworking, can’t wait for the day when she can slip out of Mitchell, South Dakota, and make it to a big city like Chicago; once there, she imagines, she’ll shed her past and start over, and no one will know she’s transgender. Abigail has seen this vanishing act referred to as “woodworking” on the internet—picking up stakes, passing for cis, and fading into the woodwork.
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1 month ago | 
theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo
Abigail Hawkes earnestly dreams of disappearing. The teenage protagonist of Emily St. James’s new novel, Woodworking, can’t wait for the day when she can slip out of Mitchell, South Dakota, and make it to a big city like Chicago; once there, she imagines, she’ll shed her past and start over, and no one will know she’s transgender. Abigail has seen this vanishing act referred to as “woodworking” on the internet—picking up stakes, passing for cis, and fading into the woodwork.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Emma Sarappo
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1 month ago | 
theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Sometimes a great book just doesn’t get its due, at least at first. As many readers may know, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was initially published to a reception that ranged from lukewarm to scornful. Today, the book is considered a classic; The Atlantic selected it as one of the past century’s great American novels.
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msn.com | Emma Sarappo
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2 months ago | 
theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In Catherine Airey’s new novel, Confessions, a Gen Z teenage girl, Lyca, pieces together her family’s secrets in the late 2010s using decidedly 20th-century technology. She is a product of her time: She makes avatars in The Sims of herself and her crush; her mother nags her about lingering on social media instead of going out into the world.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. You have a plethora of metaphors to pick from when describing these early days of 2025. January is a phoenix rising from the ashes; a butterfly wriggling free of its chrysalis. If you like, picture a bouncing baby New Year in your arms, powder fresh. The images all amount to the same thing: January is a time to (metaphorically) turn the page.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
businessandamerica.com | Emma Sarappo
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. ’Tis the season for best-of lists, which will surely roll out through the end of the year. Virtually no publication is immune to their charms. At The Atlantic, we published our selection of the 10 best books of 2024 on Wednesday, and we’ll be releasing our end-of-year lists for the best in film, television, music, and podcasts in the coming weeks.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. ’Tis the season for best-of lists, which will surely roll out through the end of the year. Virtually no publication is immune to their charms. At The Atlantic, we published our selection of the 10 best books of 2024 on Wednesday, and we’ll be releasing our end-of-year lists for the best in film, television, music, and podcasts in the coming weeks.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. A 16-year-old girl may be wise, funny, well educated, and ambitious, and she can probably hold her own in conversation. She may have reached her adult height and shoe size. By this point in her life, she has probably read books or heard songs that will make a permanent mark on her. She may have had sex or fallen in love; she may be dead serious, and be determined to be taken seriously.
