don't let me be lonely

I just read Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely. Sarah said this just might be her current favorite book. It's pretty incredible: moving and lyric and thoughtful as it meditates on death, media, depression, family, pharmaceuticals, and current historic events. And it has the most fabulous extensive notes section at the end. Just brilliant.

I'll be introducing Rankine at her reading next week. It's part of Mills' Contemporary Writers Series: Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 5:30pm in the Mills Hall Living Room.