The Paris Review - Blog Archive The Paris Review Staff's Favorite Books of 2020
Don Mee Choi. Photo: © SONG Got. Courtesy of Wave Books. Itâs a cliché to say that reading transports you, but in a year in which I spent most of my days indoors, shuffling between my bedroom and my living room, the books I read really were a lifeline, a portal to an outside world. In the weeks before New York shut down, I luxuriated in my subway reading, laughing aloud at Alma Mahlerâs antics in turn-of-the-century Vienna in Cate Hasteâs biography Passionate Spirit, savoring the deceptively calm sentences of Amina Cainâs fabular Indelicacy, and texting photos of p...
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