March 2021

What I’m Reading

Book Reviews

Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr: Click here to read my review

The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by E.J. Koh: Click here to read my review

Other

“Remember Fun?” | March 22, 2021 | Town & Country

“The Female Golf Course Architect Re-Designing The Game” by Connor Laubenstein | March 18, 2021 | Random Golf Club

“How to Practice” by Ann Patchett | March 8, 2021 | The New Yorker

“Experiencing Museums as They Should Be: Gloriously Empty” by Blake Gopnick | March 31, 2021 | The New York Times

“America Without God” by Shadi Hamid | March 10, 2021 | The Atlantic

“Youn Yuh-jung Comes to America” by E. Alex Jung | March 1, 2021 | Vulture

What I’m Listening To

“Kazuo Ishiguro and Friendship with Machines” | New York Times Book Review Podcast

“Correcting the Record on Lady Bird Johnson” | NPR’s Fresh Air

“Beverly Cleary’s Essential Books” | NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour

“Pride and Prejudice Retellings, Sequels, and Pastiche” | Novel Pairings Pod

The Book

It is absolutely crazy to think that this month marked the one-year anniversary of COVID-19’s first round of lockdowns in the U.S. The first weekend of last March, I returned to Princeton to conduct some research for my book, not knowing it would be my last research trip before everything changed and the world turned upside down…

Writing-wise, the isolation demanded by the pandemic has been an unexpected boon, though I must say I am really looking forward to making these kinds of trips again! Chicago, Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, and Boston…I’m coming for ya!