[I’ve got some
very talented friends and colleagues. So for this
year’s annual Beach Reads series, I wanted to highlight works by friends
old and new and colleagues at FSU (I’m a poet and I don’t know it!). Leading up
to one of my favorite crowd-sourced posts of the year, so make sure to share
your Beach Read nominations, please!]
I’ve written
about my friend and former FSU colleague Ian
Williams in at least
three distinct posts
here, including one in a prior
Beach Reads series no less. But if you thought that I’d let the occasion of
the publication of Ian’s first novel pass without highlighting it here—well, I
don’t imagine you thought that, and you were right. I haven’t had a chance to
read Reproduction
(2019) yet, but even without the laundry list of praise from amazing fellow
writers on that Random House (!) website, I know that this novel will be both
deep and fun, and thus a perfect Beach Read that’ll stick with you long after
the sunscreen has washed away. If Ian isn’t already a very big deal (and he
really is), he’s soon gonna be, and it’s been a honor to watch every step of
this amazing career (to date) unfold. Let’s bring the latest step to our summer
getaways!
Next Beach Read
tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What are you
bringing to the beach this year or would you recommend we bring?
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