“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.” BookMovingSufferingReadingNamesResultsAdviceBrotherDrugLettersAccountsPreparedDepthIllnessIntimatePensCompassionateSugarWiserBe PreparedEssaysTranslationsWebsiteColumnsAbusiveLovelessReplyingLoveless Marriage Author:Leigh Newman
“My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.” YearsWellsTwoBookWarEnoughThreeReadingFiveTaughtBrotherMomMy MomNineComicChocolateCigaretteComic BookHomeworkNine YearsOlder Brother Author:Chris Abani
“My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.” FirstsTwoBookYoungReadingJusticeBrotherJudgingLettersFacilityJuvenileCitingYoung BrotherJuvenile Justice Author:Hill Harper
“I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians.” HumansI CanReadingPowerfulNovelImagineCrimeBrotherSizePunishmentSheerGrandeurPredicamentsCrime And PunishmentBrothers Karamazov Author:Gordon T. Smith
“I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.” ThinkingFeelsCountryReadingFatherLiteratureBrotherGrewGrew UpBrothers And SistersCousinStepfathersChileans Author:Alejandro Zambra
“I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the French court of Louis XIV that are incredibly detailed. They are books that on every page you say, "Wow, think of that."” ThinkingTwoBookReadingCenturyBrotherPagesCourtSunsetWowSplendid Author:Stephen Dobyns
“Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!” BookReadingBrotherReaderFellowsMy BrotherHypocrite Book:The Flowers of Evil Source: The Flowers of Evil