Current Newsletter: A year of banned books

Book Buzz Feature: Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru

I never used to reread. Then I started teaching and had to think of books I cared about enough to want to discuss with students. Now I reread a lot. I’ve discovered that if I pick up more or less anything I read before I was 30, it’s as if I’m reading it for the first time. It’s odd – the more I read, the less I feel I’ve read. The last “classic” I reread was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which is one of those “over-familiar” books it has become fashionable to dismiss. I was, I think, just as enchanted by Gatsby’s forlorn love for Daisy as when I first read it as an A-level student.

― Hari Kunzru, Guardian

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
I didn’t think it was possible to read a book and feel both completely hopeless and hopeful at the end but leave it up to Octavia Butler to write the impossible.
―Ndobe Foletia, Epilogue: Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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