Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #3: Dogs
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”–Groucho MarxBetty White Reads To You(You’re welcome.)Harry the Dirty Dog MemoirShort Leash: A Memoir of Dog...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #4: Water, Water, Everywhere
It’s hard to escape news about water these days. Drought on the West Coast, hurricane season raging on the East Coast, and NASA found water on Mars. No matter where you are, these books will drench...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #5: Rad Girls
We should all implant these terrific girls in our brains. Reading excellent kid’s books as an adult reveals the world to us in new ways, reminds us of childhood and teaches us about our young selves...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #6: Eat Me: Delicious Food Memoirs
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #7: Guns
Guns are pervasive in American society. Whether it is the prominent role they frequently play in various forms of entertainment or the epidemic of gun violence, it seems they are everywhere. With more...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #8: Abortion: My Body, My Choice
“He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #9: We Shall Overcome?
Last year on our way to and from getting married in New Orleans, my now husband and I went on a civil rights pilgrimage. We went to Montgomery and Birmingham; we went to Selma. We drove the Pettus...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #10: Remember AIDS?
AIDS isn’t over, but far too many think it is. Not everyone is haunted by remembering the dying, the friends gone gaunt, the lesions appearing, the artists dropping out of sight, the funerals, the...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #11: Thanksgiving Is Racist as Hell
It’s long past time to explode some myths about Indigenous Peoples, whites and Thanksgiving. For many of us in the US, Thanksgiving has become a day to reunite with friends and family, watch football...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #12: The Art and Craft of Writing
The writing advice I give is this:1) Sit down2) WriteThese wise and talented writers have more to say.Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian GornickBraving the Fire: A Guide...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #13: Bob Dylan
I was raised on Bob Dylan. Was obsessed with his Self Portrait album when I was three, four. Asked for an easel and paints before kindergarten, took up painting because of that album cover, painted by...
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape will return after the holidays. She looks forward to offering you a bevy of reading recommendations in 2016, and wishes you all a very happy and restful holiday...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape
Anna March’s Reading Mixtape will return after the holidays. She looks forward to offering you a bevy of reading recommendations in 2016, and wishes you all a very happy and restful holiday...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape
Anna March’s Reading Mixtape will return after the holidays. She looks forward to offering you a bevy of reading recommendations in 2016, and wishes you all a very happy and restful holiday...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #14: Memoirs about Hard Times and Beauty
I love memoirs about difficult times that don’t sugarcoat it, that don’t pretty it up. I love a memoir that finds the beauty—there is such an unbelievable amount of beauty in this world—without handing...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #15: Beautiful Renderings of Complex Locales
In both fiction and non-fiction, I love a book that helps us unravel ourselves by illuminating place, a book that transports me from here to there. These six books will take you far… and deliver...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #16: For My Friend Craig, on a Boozy Midnight
You know how you can like a book just fine, but if you love a book, you’ll tell a friend about it? I told my friend Craig about all of these books. Craig has a facile brain and big heart and a...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #17: A Few Smart, Beautiful, Recent Books
You’ll want to devour this bunch—favorites of mine from a wildly disparate batch of recent reads.Calf by Andrea KleineThis novel is smart, taut, and finely woven. Using actual historic events as a...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #18: A Valentine: Fab Books by Fab Lit Citizens
I’m just back from Iowa, writing about the Democratic Caucus for Salon. You know what will make you think about citizenry? Watching hundreds of working-class union members standing in the harsh wind...
View ArticleAnna March’s Reading Mixtape #19: Truth
Truth—a higher, bigger truth—is what I want when I read. I want to nod my head in radical understanding. I want to grasp our complex, fragile humanity better. I want the ancient truths on every page,...
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