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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2022

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of After The Lights Go Out by John Vercher and The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves.

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022

The Trees by Percival Everett review – potent satire of US racism

This Booker-longlisted investigation of gruesome murders in Mississippi addresses a deep political issue through page-turning comic horror

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2022

The ‘Maya Angelou of Iraq,’ a refugee living in South Jersey, publishes a powerful memoir

Writer Faleeha Hassan had a strange dream.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Aug 31, 2022

Review: 'Acceptance,' by Emi Nietfeld

At 17, Minneapolis native Emi Nietfeld won a prestigious national writing award and told a Twin Cities newspaper reporter that she wanted to write a memoir. Thirteen years later, "Acceptance" has been published, and it's extraordinary.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

LA novelist Laura Warrell on the music and heartbreak that inspired her debut

LOS ANGELES -- After years of being heartbroken and disappointed by musicians, Laura Warrell finally added them, alongside bartenders and skateboarders, to her list of "Off Limits Men."

Los Angeles Times · Aug 31, 2022

Barton Goldsmith: You can only handle so much disappointment

I just had the biggest disappointment of this very tough year: My publisher is delaying the release of my latest book, “until market conditions change.” This is a biggie for me, and I am sharing it with you, because I want you to know that, even with all I have…

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

Gwendolyn Kiste rewrites famous horror heroines' stories in 'Reluctant Immortals'

PITTSBURGH — There was always something about the stories of Lucy Westenra and Bertha Mason that Gwendolyn Kiste felt were incomplete — and that's putting it generously.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

Review: 'Reluctant Immortals' cleverly restores agency to 2 mistreated characters

If you're going to completely reimagine the stories of two famous literary characters, you might as well do it with style.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

Review: 'Where Are the Snows,' by Kathleen Rooney

Reading Kathleen Rooney's "Where Are the Snows" is much like walking into an echo chamber from which you emerge enlightened, amused and shaken. In each poem, sounds, ideas and positions rise, repeat and mutate, as in this line from a poem on outer space: "Black hole as home for the…

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022