![]() ![]() IN THE DREAM HOUSE: A Memoir, by Carmen Maria Machado. (Crooked Lane Books, 328 pp., $16.99.) Our horror columnist, Danielle Trussoni, loved this debut novel about a woman’s descent into paranoia after delivering twins: “Golding’s portrait of new motherhood was so spot on, so filled with the horrible and gruesome realities of childbirth, and the infantilization of women by the medical system, that I couldn’t turn away.” (Picador, 416 pp., $19.) In the depth and breadth of these pieces, which range from the Million Man March to the gentrification of Harlem to the streets of Ferguson, Mo., Pinckney “reveals himself to be a skillful chronicler of Black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography,” our reviewer, Lauretta Charlton, wrote. “He serves good stories because he doesn’t over-batter them.”īUSTED IN NEW YORK: And Other Essays, by Darryl Pinckney. ![]() “He’s maniacally self-deprecating,” Dwight Garner wrote in The Times last year. (Ecco, 272 pp., $17.99.) Gout, expandable belts, diets, countless bottles of antacid tablets: Platt, the longtime food critic for New York magazine, dishes up a painfully honest account of what it’s like to eat for a living. THE BOOK OF EATING: Adventures in Professional Gluttony, by Adam Platt. ![]()
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