Tell Me What You're Reading #4: Emma Holland on the love of words, reading, highlighting, rereading . . . The Art of Reading + "Too Much and Not the Mood", by Duga Chew-Bose. — Bookworms In The Wild

Sep 26

Sep 26 Tell Me What You're Reading #4: Emma Holland on the love of words, reading, highlighting, rereading . . . The Art of Reading + "Too Much and Not the Mood", by Duga Chew-Bose.

Howard Altarescu

Emma’s enthusiasm and love for reading is infectious. Emma reads almost entirely for words, rather than story, Emma loves to hold her books in her hands, highlights compulsively, is usually reading several books at a time, rereads her comfort books, and comfort passages from those books, and, according to her terrific interview with the online journal Girls at Library, loathes lending books to others, even to her Mom. This is a woman who truly loves literature and her books.

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Emma reveals to us how she reads as much as she tells us what she reads, which includes her favorite book in the last decade, Too Much and Not the Mood, by Brooklyn based first time author Durga Chew-Bose, books by Emma’s favorite Author, Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Strout, and Emma’s favorite essay about New York, The Way We Live Now:11.11.01; Lost and Found, by native New Yorker, novelist Colson Whitehead. (Agreed; beautiful essay.)

Recorded in our Brodhead Road Studio, West Shokan, New York.

What Emma is reading . . .

Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose

Review Slate

The Way We Live Now:11.11.01; Lost and Found, Colson Whitehead

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh

Reviews The New York Times | The New Yorker

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

https://amzn.to/2Du0DyO

Reviews The New York Times | Slate | NPR

The Autobiography of Red, by Anne Carson

Review The Guardian

The New York Times Profile of Anne Carson

My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout

Review The New York Times

Elizabeth Strout Website

A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

Review The New York Times

The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison

Review Slate

Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead

Review The New York Times

and more . . .

Girls at Library

https://www.girlsatlibrary.com/interviews/emma-and-natali

The Ten Year Nap, Meg Wolitzer

Review The New York Times | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/09/meg-wolitzer-rides-the-feminist-waves

Forever, Pete Hamill

Buy on Amazon

Review The New York Times

Emma’s Bookstores

McNally Jackson Books

Books are Magic in Brooklyn

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