Gary's Poolside Summer Reading Club

Go, Literature!

Summer is when I allow myself to get a little stupid, but not TOO stoopid, and that means reading some good books. Here are four I find delicious.

The Guest by Emma Cline

Yeah, a lot of people have reached for one this summer. I like how it has more plot than many other literary novels out there, but it’s still mainly about a young woman stumbling from place to place without doing much, which is my favorite kind of novel. Also, it’s set in the Hamptons which proves conclusively that living Upstate is better.

A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung

Nicole Chung has become one of my fave memoirists. She’s a great prose stylist and brings immense insight to her own life as a Korean adoptee growing up in whitest Oregon. This is also a really good take on illness in general and COVID in particular. Touching but never gloomy or too self-centered.