Tag: All Our Names

  • Top Names in Washington Post’s Top 50 fiction books for 2014

    Top Names in Washington Post’s Top 50 fiction books for 2014

    I really should have flagged this Top Fiction Books by the Washington Post in November but I somehow missed out on it. I really just discovered the list when some pals forwarded to me a link of one Ayelet Waldman who was #WhiningWhileWhite that she had failed to be included in the notable books of…

  • Dinaw Mengestu makes New York Times’ 100 notable books

    Dinaw Mengestu makes New York Times’ 100 notable books

    The New York Times has unveiled its 100 notable books of 2014 and there is a novel by a name readers of this blog are familiar with; Dinaw Mengestu. Mengestu entered our consciousness for the first time when he was a guest at our Storymoja Hay Festival in 2012 and we have been stalking him…