Ta-Nehisi Coates probably needs no introduction. Upon the release of his book Between the World and Me, he became a superstar writer. His rise to stardom was covered in an episode of This American Life (this was actually how I discovered Ta-Nehisi Coates) which is so good it deserves a separate post of its own….
Category: Books and Comics
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Book Review)
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter is a collection of essays and, the debut book, of author Scaachi Koul, a Canadian with Indian immigrant parents. This year I have been on a roll reading works by children of first generation Indian immigrants- Mindy Kaling, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Aziz…
The Library of Unread Books
This August I had the chance to visit The Library of Unread Books (TLUB) on the last week of its two-month run here in Manila. Here is a description of TLUB from MCAD Commons’ website: The second iteration of a ten-year-long project, The Library of Unread Books develops from the artist’s (Heman Chong) deep-seated longing for books….
Open by Andre Agassi
#20 of 40 Books this 2017 Goal My sudden obsession with tennis has led me to Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open (the title of course is both an allusion to tennis and to the notion of opening up or confessing). The book is co-written by J.R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer winning journalist and author (he refused to…
Life on a Budget 