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My Top 10 Books of the Year

Mill Town, Kerri Arsenault

Part memoir, part expose of the paper industry in Rumford, Maine, you could spend weeks mulling this onion of a book without reading the center

Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

Pastoral and meandering, in this classic nothing happens and everything happens. It’s a story about small kindnesses (and big kindnesses) that add up to a life well lived.

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante

The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante

A two for one deal here as these are the back half of Ferrante’s masterful Neapolitan Quartet. The entire time you’re in awe of a genius at work.

Matrix, Lauren Groff

Literary and willfully subversive. Set in a medieval French abbey, it offers a glimpse of a world that could have been if only there’d existed a woman with the heroine’s force of will.

The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow

The more well versed in history you are, the better this blend of historical fiction and fantasy is. It’s still a helluva fun ride even if you’re aren’t well versed.

Galatea, Madeline Miller

A feminist retelling of the Pygmalion myth from my favorite working author as I eagerly await her next novel (foot tapping).

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng

What happens when two women with incompatible world views collide in a suburban Ohio? I think the title says it all.

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead

Again the more you know your history the better this novel is. Regardless, if it doesn’t make you angry on at least six different levels there’s something wrong with you.

The Lobster Coast, Colin Woodward

The history of Maine as told through its most visible export, written in a lively style and grounded in well researched chapters? Yes, please!

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Ty for the tag @knightofthieves!!

Last Song I Am A Highway (Audioslave)

Currently Watching Kinda Watchung Criminal Minds (s5), X-Files (s1)...rewatching spn against my better judgment. All of them slowly (I hate binge watching, I get too antsy)

Currently Reading Between books atm. I just finished An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon and I'm trying to decide if I should finish Mill Town by Kerri Arsenault (put it down a year ago because it got too sad with the author's father dying of cancer and I was going thru it) or starting Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (since she makes me yearn.)

Current Obsession This idea for a story that I've been rotating around my brain like a rotisserie chicken since a job interview I had back in April

No pressure tagging (since I see these notifications, click on them, then immediately forget to answer 70% of the time) @wilsonthemoose @acesammy, @mountaingoatsbennylafitte, @anhedonicsam,@nonbinary-witch-sam, @notfredj, @suncaptor, @failedfrankensteincoded, @treacherousrift

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Reading Year in Review

Not super impressive, but my excuse to talk about the books I really liked from this year + reflect on shit

Number of Books I Read: 11?

Shortest Book: Night of the Mannequin by Stephen Graham Jones

Longest Book: Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

(These are approximations since both were audiobooks)

Books I Didn't Finish That I Don't Plan on Finishing: Cackle by Rachel Harrison

Books I'm Still Reading and Will Probably Finish (Eventually): A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, The Endurance by Alfred Lansing, Milltown by Kerri Arsenault, IT by Steven King, The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass, Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

Favorite Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Holy shit she is so fucking good

Favorite Book: Tie between Unbury Carol by Joshua Malerman (we stan James Moxie as a problematic fave) and Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (holy shit holy shit holy shit)

Book With the Most Anticipated Sequel: My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (only book with a sequel since it's part of a trilogy). Special props because the name of the sequel reminds me of Blue Öyster Cult lol

Freakiest Book: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

Most Depressing Book: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D Schmidt and Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins

Book that Disappointed Me the Most: Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty. It was a dumb, good domestic drama until about 75% in and then it got boring. Sigh.

Thoughts: Oh idk, maybe be better about not picking up 6 books at once and then getting distracted? My tastes are also all over the place lol

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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault https://amzn.to/2R2kMQJ

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5 Questions with Kerri Arsenault, Author of Mill Town

Kerri Arsenault serves on the board of the National Books Critics Circle, is the Book Review Editor at Orion magazine, and Contributing Editor at Lit Hub. Arsenault received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and studied in Malmö University’s Communication for Development master’s programme. Her writing has appeared in Freeman’s, Lit Hub, Oprah.com, and the Star Tribune, among other publications. She lives in New England. Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains (published by St. Martin’s Press) is her first book. 

Kerri Arsenault is in conversation with Kurt Anderson discussing their new books, Mill Town and Evil Geniuses in our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Tuesday, September 15. 

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Where are you writing to us from?

In a house built in 1784 with chestnut boards and local granite by a Revolutionary War general, Ephraim Hinman, in Roxbury, Connecticut. I wrote a little about him here.

What’s kept you sane this year?

Running a marathon a week, falafel, five acres of land, health insurance, growing my own food, and reliable Internet.

What are 3 books you always recommend to people?

What I recommend is based on the reader so it’s never the same books, but today I would recommend On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss; Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution by Ben Fountain; Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond.

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

These books changed the way I thought about storytelling: Dictionary of the Undoing by John Freeman; The Peregrine by JA Baker; The Jungle by Upton Sinclair; American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell; Slow Violence and Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon for all the reasons I wrote about in Lit Hub.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

Rumford, Maine, where I grew up. The old commercial buildings there are gracious and empty, devoid of love but filled with history. Plus, I’m not sure we ever had a bookstore! I’d name it BOOKSTORE because there would be no mistaking what it contains.

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What is your most anticipated release for the second half of the year?

There are so many on my list but I’m looking forward to:

The Discomfort of Evening: A Novel by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. A translations and I get the feeling that it is going to be weird and strange.

Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England by Gemma Hollman. Witchcraft from the historical lens is something I find interesting and I want to no more about its place in history.

Mill Town by Kerri Arsenault. Really excited to see what she is going to explore in regards to working class communities and how they change/suffer in our current world.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I’m a slut strange houses in fiction

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad. I feel like this will be everything Hood Feminism was not for me.

The Harpy by Megan Hunter. I am so excited for this like you have no idea. People joke that literary fiction is all about troubled marriages and that’s totally fine with me but what Hunter is doing seems really unique and I can’t wait to fully experience it in November. 

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"Home" for the Holidays

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For many of us, the next few weeks will be a flurry of holiday parties, last-minute gift runs, and the chance to see family and friends. In a bid to remember why we go through so much trouble to be with loved ones this time if year, consider picking up the third literary anthology in the Freeman’s collection entitled Home (Grove, $16). Thirty-seven writers from around the world focused on the…

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End of 2020 Book Review

1. Books finished: 61

2. New genres: YA, horror. I also read my first graphic novel and tried audiobooks, which only work for me on long drives.

3. Best Book: Weather by Jenny Offill, Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

4. Best Sequel: Not really a sequel, but a second novel with similar themes- The Lager Queens of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

5. Favorite New (to me) Author: Louise Erdrich (Read 4 of her books this year)

6. Favorite Author: Olga Tokarczuk

7. Biggest Disappointment: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

8. Biggest Surprise: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

9. New Favorite Character: Selin from The Idiot by Elif Batuman

10. Book I’d like to be a Film: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson OR Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

11. Stand-Out Non-Fiction: Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl AND The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

12. Favorite Cover: Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

13. Most Anticipated 2021 Release: Brood by Jackie Polzin

14. Books to Start 2021:

Fiction: Self Care by Leigh Stein OR Temporary by Hilary Leichter

Non-Fiction: Mill Town by Kerri Arsenault

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Hofstra University

Humanities New York Readings and Discussion Series: “Place and Story: Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains”

Join in a series of readings and discussion as together we’ll explore the ways in which humans and the natural world co-exist within the context of American environmental myths past and present. Through a combination of fiction and memoir, we’ll consider the ways our relationship to landscape transcends borders, politics, race, and socio-economics--and the ways in which it brings inequities into sharp relief.

Facilitator:  Kelly McMasters, Assistant Professor of English + Director of Publishing Studies, Hofstra University

"Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains" by Kerri Arsenault* Focused on a paper mill in Arsenault’s hometown in Mexico, Maine, this memoir is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?

*Special Guest Visit by the author

Tuesday, November 10, 6:30 p.m. Virtual event: Advance registration is required. More info and to RSVP visit: https://events.hofstra.edu/index.php?eID=38543

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Her Town Depended on the Mill. Was It Also Making the Residents Sick?

By BY EMILY COOKE In “Mill Town,” Kerri Arsenault uncovers her family’s long history in northern Maine and an epidemic of cancer that may be intimately connected to the community’s main employer. Published: September 1, 2020 at 05:25PM from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2YWwFf9 via