Thea Goodman time-to-read.short-label WRITERS AND LOVERS by Lily King. What’s at stake in this novel is the simple happiness of our struggling writer protagonist. Love and work are what she seeks and there’s ...
Thea Goodman time-to-read.short-label THIS IS NOW THAT WAS THEN by Vijay Seshadri Seshadri’s fifth book of poems is wildly idiosyncratic, funny, varied in style. I found his preoccupations similar to Rankine’s in some w...
Thea Goodman time-to-read.short-label DON'T LET ME BE LONELY TONIGHT by Claudia Rankine This book—image, poem, essay— is part of a trilogy including Just Us and Citizen, is less about race and more about mental anguish. What ...
Thea Goodman time-to-read.short-label MONOGAMY by Sue Miller Sue Miller’s novel is told not shown in the great tradition of Henry James, or George Eliot; the telling is psychological, fine tuned and...
Thea Goodman time-to-read.short-label JUST US by Claudia Rankine This book, one of a trilogy, an amalgam of poetry, essay, excerpt and found image transformed my way of seeing race in the US. I felt my...
theagoodman time-to-read.short-label GARTH GREENWELL Published February 21, 2020 | By thea His prose reminds me of Ishiguro’s in the best way; lyrical, precise, and correct. That correctness...
Thea Goodman time-to-read.short-label MEMORY, PROCESS, STORY Below is a project I did with artist, Diana Frid and musician, Mark Gallay in 2004 when I’d only loved in Chicago for 1 year.
Thea Goodman time-to-read.short-label TEACHING GREAT COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES: Published April 19, 2019 | By thea The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt Nine Stories by JD Salinger After The Quake by Haruki Murakami Her Body...
Thea Goodman time-to-read.short-label SUMMER BOOKS I LOVED, 2017 Published October 24, 2017 | By thea This summer I read some startling poetry—Paschen, Kaschike, and Sinclair, 2 amazing debuts by Clemmo...
Thea Goodman time-to-read.short-label WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST BOOKSTORE IN CHICAGO Published December 12, 2016 | By thea Panel discussion of best books of the year. Dec. 16, 2016 at 7:30pm