Here’s an early peek at our April book pick

Dear book clubbers,   Next week is our live event with Naomi Alderman! Have you RSVP'd yet?   Thank you to all of you who answered our survey as we approach the one-year anniversary of our sweet book club. We've heard your thoughts, and we'll be making a few little tweaks to the way we do things around here.   For one thing: Fewer emails! We'll be bringing this newsletter down to more of a twice-monthly cadence instead of once a week.   For another thing: We're going to be experimenting with announcing each month's book pick a few weeks early in these newsletters so you have plenty of time to buy the book or borrow it from the library. And with that in mind, let's look ahead to April ... COMING UP IN APRIL   Our April book pick will be The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi. This rich and lovely novel begins when a mother in southeastern Nigeria opens her door one day to find her son's dead body lying at her feet. Moving back and forth through time, we track Vivek through his troubled childhood — marked by seizures and homophobic bullying — and his family's fractured trajectory after his death. There's a lot to go into here, and I'm excited to talk with you all about it. Look for more details soon. COMING UP NEXT WEEK   Thursday, March 25: Join us for our virtual live event with Power author Naomi Alderman at noon ET. Reader questions are encouraged, and you can RSVP here. THE WEEK IN BOOKS AT VOX   This week, Alissa Wilkinson spoke to the artists who seemed to foretell the pandemic — including the author of Station Eleven and the screenwriter behind Contagion — about how they see the world now. And in the wake of the Atlanta shooting, I collected recommendations from experts of books to read to understand anti-Asian racism in America.  NOTABLE BOOKS COVERAGE AROUND THE WEB   Here's some of the best writing about books published across the internet this week. The Cruel Optimism of the Gothic: Wealth, Class, and Villainy in YA Fiction | Tor Alexander Chee and Cathy Park Hong on how the pandemic has cracked open discrimination against Asian American communities | Gen Translating the Dictionary | Words Without Borders On the Case for Meanness in Fiction | LitHub "I cannot explain queerness any longer in ways that don't involve ghosts." | Catapult   Happy reading!   —Constance

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