I Just Keep Talking

I Just Keep TalkingBy: Nell Irvin Painter 2024 New York Times Notable Book of the Year Finalist: The 2025 PEN Diamonstein Speilvogel Award for the Art of the Essays Painter puts muscle and heart into history so that her readers can easily, but thoughtfully, draw the lines between past and present. Her history is inclusive, not in a pandering or self consciously correct way, but because her artful telling of it is full of complexity thats both beautiful and bracing.

because she wants this life more than anything

and sound—be aroused when we see a product

Josie and Delia start to realize that an uncertain future can be both monstrous

Pellaeon–sworn to protect the Republic over all–is torn between duty and desire

Features an introduction by British writer Jacqueline Wilson

long-kept secrets about the world

and design of LSD blotter paper

We see people who represent a unique transnationalism and a new form of immigrant assimilation--foreigners who come from close by and visit home frequently

Waiting for Peace: War Stories was originally published as War: Stories of Conflict

for a new generation of fans

their hatred is about to reach a tipping point—and it’s going to heat up their cool coastal nights

a mousy thing