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The abundance, a selection from the work of one of the great, original voices in recent American letters, might just as easily be called The Absence. It speaks of absence—for nature’s profusion, in Annie Dillard, is everywhere the signage of the hidden...

A passage from An American Childhood ends with the characteristically brilliant image of a woman diving into water, becoming sealed in her reflection and wearing it “as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.” It’s Annie Dillard all over, that...

1. If you’re a writer, you need to go where the stories are, and Pittsburgh is a story. My mother attended the University of Pittsburgh during the late 1960s when the steel mills were in full swing, and the air quality was so poor that students had...

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Just Kids by Patti Smith Wild by Cheryl Strayed The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke Night by Elie Wiesel Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch End of Eve by Ariel Gore The Glass Castle by Jeannette...

Welcome to another Tuesday, readers! It's time for a new episode of What Should I Read Next. Today we welcome the marvelous Carolyn McCready to the show! Carolyn is one of my favorite people to talk books with, and I'm so excited to include YOU in the...