Notes on Surviving the Fire by Christine Murphy. Knopf, February 25, 2025 TW: Rape, Drug use, suicide, animal death Sarah Common is a PhD candidate in Southern California. She spends her time teaching, working on the dissertation her mentor may never approve, getting high with her best friend (and anchor) Nathan, and obsessing over the man who raped her two years ago. It doesn't help that her rapist is in the same program as her. The only thing keeping her remotely grounded i

If you spend any time at all on social media, you are likely to come across posts encouraging readers to read more diversely. In turn, you will also find responses asking for recommendations (as well as chastising comments telling the commenter to do the work themselves). I’m still working on incorporating more diversity into my stacks, but I’m no gatekeeper, so I thought I’d give a list of some of my favorite reads by Black authors. Maybe this will help get a few readers sta