If you’re reading Book Swap—and you are—my bet is on your New Year’s resolution being to read more books. So in the first edition of Book Swap in 2019, I thought I’d share a glimpse of Nick Drnaso’s TBR pile and some of my own selections.
Every Christmas my brother and I try to recommend presents to each other so we’re not passing the same gift cards back and forth. This year I asked him to buy me The Dinosaur Man by Susan Baur. I can’t remember where I first heard about this book, but it’s been on my wish list for a few years. Baur recounts her time working as a psychologist with schizophrenic patients, where she developed a method of immersing herself in the delusional mind as a way to uncover and understand the internal logic.
Former Chicagoan Aleksandar Hemon will release My Parents / This Does Not Belong to You through MCD, a Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux imprint, in the spring. Pairing the narrative of his parents’ immigration from Bosnia to Canada with his extremely personal tales will certainly offer a fantastic frame for his incisive revelations and stunning eye for detail.
