Emma Radosevich

Book Buzz: Spread Me

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Cover image from "Spread Me" by Sarah Gailey

Spread Me by Sarah Gailey On a far-flung desert planet, research station life follows a predictable routine: days are for analyzing samples and tracking sandstorms. Nights are for drinking games and romantic entanglements. Or at least, that’s how the rest of the team lets off steam—head researcher Kinsey chose this assignment specifically for the isolation.   As a desert storm appears on the horizon, they discover the body of an alien lifeform buried in the sand. Kinsey breaks protocol … Read more

Book Buzz: Sunbirth

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Sunbirth by An Yu In the desert town of Five Poems Lake, a young woman tries to live a peaceful life of routine despite her circumstances. Twelve years ago, her parents disappeared one by one: only her father’s body was found. Her loss was overshadowed when the sun began to disappear from the sky a sliver at a time.   Since then, the locals who remain have acclimated to the colder … Read more

Book Buzz: Algospeak

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Cover image of "Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language" by Alec Aleksic

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language by Alec Aleksic    Why are young people saying “unalive” instead of “dead”? Why do all influencers sound the same? How is TikTok changing the way we speak—even for people who don’t use the app?   Using his experience as TikTok’s @EtymologyNerd, linguist Alec Aleksic answers these … Read more

Book Buzz: American Bulk

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Cover image of "American Bulk: Essays on Excess" by Emily Mester

American Bulk: Essays on Excess by Emily Mester   In Emily Mester’s childhood home, the dining table was cleared for dining only on Christmas and Easter. Every other day was for piles: piles from shopping bags from shopping hauls from Chicagoland big box stores, but especially from the closest place Emily’s family had to church: Costco.   … Read more

Book Buzz: Feeding Ghosts

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Cover image of "Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir" by Tessa Hulls

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls This year’s winner of the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction is a breathtaking achievement of memoir, art and Chinese history.  Growing up, Tessa Hulls knew three things about her grandma, Sun Yi: She was from China, she was a writer, she was crazy. Their home … Read more

Book Buzz: Summerhouse

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Cover image of "Summerhouse" by Yiğit Karaahmet

Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet, translated from the Turkish by Nicholas Glastonbury  To their neighbors on Büyükada, a sleepy island off the coast of Istanbul, pianist Şener and playwright Fehmi are known to their neighbors as unusual artist friends who share a lush, hilltop garden estate. Only their closest friends know the two men have been … Read more

Book Buzz: Friends of the Museum

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Cover image for "Friends of the Museum" by Heather McGowan

Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan  It’s a no good very bad day for the director of a floundering New York art museum. A PR disaster involving dubiously sourced artifacts is unfolding in real time; meanwhile, the head security guard has a hunch that the new artwork is a fake. Half the staff are … Read more

Book Buzz: Orbital

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Cover image of "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey

Orbital by Samantha Harvey Hour by hour, eight billion people wake across twenty-four time zones. High above the atmosphere, six astronauts on the International Space Station are having a very different kind of day. Over the span of sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets—one day—their spacecraft chases the sun as its orbit crisscrosses Earth.   Orbital spends … Read more

Book Buzz: Women’s Hotel

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Cover image of "Women's Hotel" by Daniel Lavery

Women’s Hotel by Daniel Lavery  Welcome to the Biedermeier. It’s shabbier (and much cheaper) than the Barbizon, but it’s still a respectable residential hotel where a professional single lady can establish herself in 1960s New York City. Women’s Hotel meanders between the Biedermeier’s fifteen floors, offering the reader glimpses into the lives and daily dramas … Read more

Book Buzz: The Bog Wife

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Cover image of "The Bog Wife" by Kay Chronister

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister Wenna Haddesley hasn’t seen her family, their crumbling manor, or their ancestra cranberry bog since she ran away as a teenager. But when she receives a letter calling her home for her family’s mystical, once-in-a-generation ritual, she returns to Appalachia to confront her past.  Upon arrival, she finds the … Read more