Whooo, it’s time for #FridayReads and there’s all KINDS of interesting stuff going on around here. Me personally, I’m doing what I always do when my TBR pile gets out of control – running in the other direction, towards a cool book that’s already out. In this case, it’s Caroline Fraser’s fascinating Laura Ingalls Wilder biography Prairie Fires.
Mama Susan Stamberg is moving house this weekend, but if she had time to read, she says she’d be reading Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women.
TV Critic Eric Deggans is reading Questlove’s new book on creativity, Creative Quest. “It’s interesting to me that a guy who is involved with so many creative endeavors –from becoming a linchpin of Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, to producing D’Angelo’s comeback record to leading his own podcast to performing during Dave Chappelle’s standup tour de force at Radio City Music Hall – doesn’t think he’s that creative himself,” Eric says.“ I just like spending time inside Quest’s head – he’s a supremely talented guy who is both confident and insecure at the same time – so I’m not sure if reading this will change whatever creative processes I have. But it just might, which would be very cool.”
Friend of the Desk Colin Dwyer says “It just occurred to me Knausgaard volume 6 is COMING OUT IN TWO MONTHS. Friggin finally. So, I’m finally plunging back into his seasonal quartet in anticipation.“ Good on ya, Colin.
Boss Lady Ellen Silva says “Oh god, how to compete with Sharp Objects on HBO? OK, my plan is to read, finally, Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room. Dark comedy. That’s my happy place.”
Big Boss Edith Chapin has some light summer reading, John Meacham’s The Soul of America.
Pop Culture Happy Hour’s Linda Holmes is reading Tommy Orange’s powerful debut There There, and hoping to make time for the latest installment in Lucy Parker’s delightful London Celebrities series.
Our critic Annalisa Quinn has Less, which she says is “delightful.”
And producer Jessica Reedy is taking Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers with her on a quick getaway to New York.
How about you?
– Petra
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