A Year in Reading with Jennifer Huberdeau
A 2021 awardee
Tell us what you read in 2024 that …
… shook you up.
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
... you’d recommend to other arts writers.
Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York by Marin Kosut
... introduced you to an artist that you didn’t know much about.
Sophie Calle: True Stories: 66 Short Stories by Sophie Calle
… was a guilty pleasure.
The Most by Jessica Anthony
... was old, a little obscure and absolutely delicious.
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Art Monster (Columbia University Press, 2024) by Marin Kosut reminds us that talent no longer determines which artists will be successful — sales do. This is a great example of why critics should venture beyond the “white cube” galleries.
The Employees (New Directions, 2022): Eerie tale by Olga Ravn of a human/android space crew told through the ship’s remaining records after taking mysterious alien artifacts aboard.
Sophie Calle: True Stories (Actes Sud, 1994) made me think I was reading a photo diary I’d found on the street. I wondered how this was my first encounter with Calle.
Tender Is the Flesh (Scribner, 2020): This dystopian novel still haunts me. Agustina Bazterrica’s look at the cruelty of humans and at our ability to justify the consumption of meat, no matter the source.
The Most by Jessica Anthony (Little, Brown & Co., 2024) was devoured in a single sitting. This 1950s housewife won’t come out of the community pool. She’s not the only one with secrets.
