Elisa Albert launched her new lunchtime literary salon, How Hard Could It Be? with guest Courtney Zoffness. Of course Elisa asked What are you reading?
Marge Piercy – The Moon Is Always Female [Request It]
Marge Piercy – Woman on the Edge of Time [Request It]
(See all of Marge Piercy’s books in the UHLS catalog)
Alice Childress – A Short Walk
Alice Childress – A hero ain’t nothin’ but a sandwich [Request it!] (A young adult novel!)
(See all of Alice Childress’s books in the UHLS catalog)
Elisa is reading
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Unconsoled [Request it]
or read a review
You can get in the cure to read
Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and the Sun [Request it]
or listen to a review
(See all of Ishiguro’s book in the UHLS catalog)
Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea [Request It]
Read a nice short review. If you are preparing to re-read The Sea, The Sea, check out this guide to re-reading!
(See all of Iris Murdoch’s books in the UHLS catalog)
Finally, Elisa recommends
Ted Chiang – Stories of Your Life [Request it]
You may have seen its cinema adaptation, Arrival.
Hear the story of the adaptation!
(See all of Ted Chiang’s books in the UHLS catalog)
Elisa’s guest Courtney also recommended The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead and the short story, “The Special World” by Tiphanie Yanique. The article appeared in The Georgia Review and will be available soon in Best American Short Stories. You can hear the author read the story here.
Visit our Youtube to see Elisa’s conversation with Courtney to hear the rest of their conversation and save the date, April 14th, for her next salon with Shalom Auslander.
