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Robert Henri’s classic is often referred to as the Bible for artists, and it lives up to its reputation. The Art Spirit manages to transcend technical lessons and strikes at the core of what it means to be an artist.
Salter’s writing is like a tide: spare, then lyrical, but constantly flowing, with unbelievable grace, down a page. He captures the experiences of fighter pilots with all the precision and beauty of books about lovers.
Lindsay Cummings’s debut definitely deserves to be towards the top of the list of darkest dystopians. The brisk pacing of the short chapters alternating points of view keeps the suspense high and the body count even higher.
No one else writes like Nell Zink. Her dialogue is infinitely sharper than real life, and she manages to turn racism, sexism, classism & Southern history into rich veins of pitiless, yet breezy comedy.
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s memoir about the black men who died too soon in her life injects some much-needed perspective and humanity into the larger narrative about systemic racism, sexism, and classism.
Doerr, who received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, writes with an exacting lyricism. His vivid imagery is astounding, especially when a blind protagonist describes the beauty of shells and sea by sense rather than sight.
Zambreno’s novel diverges from melodramatic & comedic stories about messy young women’s lives, instead offering a disturbingly recognizable depiction of the quiet ways the 20’s identity crisis manifests.
