New for the Reading List: The Economist Books, 12 May 2018

June 27, 2018 at 7:37 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Explorers, Lists, Memoirs, Publishers, Women Writers)
Tags: experimental, history, interviews, memoir, natural history, novel, reading lists, science writing

1. The latest from Rachel Cusk: Kudos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series is mentioned in the review: self has been wanting to read Knausgaard. Hopefully, someday.
2. Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything, by Helen Scales (Bloomsbury Sigma). Scales’s earlier book, about seashells, is Spirals in Time.
3. Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, by Zora Neale Hurston: written in 1927, finally out in print!!! (Amistad)