Daryl Sng @darylsng.com · Jun 5 Just finished the best book I’ve read this year, Virginia Evans’ The Correspondent. An epistolary novel that builds and builds a fuller picture of Sybil van Antwerp (the correspondent of the title) with each letter and email she sends and receives, and what a rich, complex and complicated life it is
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Ah! I read that a few months ago. Also enjoyed it. Just finished the youth book "The Westing Game," which puzzle people have been nostalgic about. Didn't love it? More than halfway through Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad." Have you read this one yet, Daryl?
Finished Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers. Took me a while because I kept having to take breaks – anything about the 80s AIDS crisis and how it devastated communities really moves me. (See: the magnificent It’s a Sin.) But this book is also about art, memory, and the sheer psychogeography of