As we step into the second month of 2024, Roxanne is joined by her friend and esteemed book reviewer, Bill Goldstein, for this week’s “Shorts” episode. Together, they delve into six captivating books that have captured their attention and enthusiasm.

We are thrilled to have the beautiful new biography of Carson McCullers by past The Cullman Center Fellow Mary Dearborn in hand! Don't miss the launch event here NY Public Library NYPL Events with Mary and Bill Goldstein on Feb 27: showclix.com/event/Dearborn

On #blackhistory: Madness Antonia Hylton, on "our traumas & illnesses" intertwined w/ "the peculiar reality of being black," Jim Crow to #jordanneely. James McBride's superb novel Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Lincoln #PresidentsDay: Differ We Must Steve Inskeep nbcnewyork.com/books

On February 27, join former The Cullman Center Fellows Mary Dearborn and Bill Goldstein (Bill Goldstein) to discuss the biography and life of writer Carson McCulllers. Register now: on.nypl.org/3I3ig76

Join our zoom, "From That Time and Place," Beinecke Library celebrating Andrew Holleran & Felice Picano on their 80th birthdays, Mon., Feb. 26, 4 p.m. ET. Free registration: bit.ly/49azlbl ©️Robert Giard #lgbtq #lgbtwriters #gay #gaybooks #lgbtbooks #lgbt #gayfiction

TOMORROW!

I hope you can join us Performance Space New York on Monday at 7 pm!

If it's Tuesday, it must be amor towles. His fantastic new book, Table for Two, is out today. Don't miss the unforgettable James by Percival Everett & Vinson Cunningham's beautiful Great Expectations. A happy spring for fiction, as Jen Maxfield & I discuss. nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen…

Two fantastic #books out today: An Unfinished Love Story Doris Kearns Goodwin; Adam Moss's The Work of Art. The art of history at its peak; 43 artists reveal from the inside how something comes from nothing. Both spectacular. nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen… #read #reading #book #art #UShistory

Another great #book week, as Gus Rosendale & I explain: #History by three equally brilliant, totally different, #writers: The Demon of Unrest Erik Larson; I Just Keep Talking Nell Painter; The Muse of Fire, by Michael Korda. No need to choose. #Read them all. nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen…

Mother's Day #books for moms and everyone. Pat Battle and I highlight two novels by favorite authors, Helen Simonson's Hazelbourne Ladies...; Ann Hood's Stolen Child; & the revelatory group biography, The Swans of Harlem Karen Valby. nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen… #MothersDay #read

Summer #reading is here. Colm Tóibín's Long Island & City in Ruins Don Winslow (& his whole Danny Ryan trilogy): totally different, equally riveting, character driven & unputdownable #books. Gus Rosendale & I talk about how great they are. nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen… #read #summereading

Happy Pride! Three revelatory books to celebrate: Candy Darling, by Cynthia Carr; A Place of Our Own June Thomas; The Other Olympians Michael Waters. Each essential, as Gus Rosendale & I discuss. 📚🏳️‍🌈 pilot.latakoo.com/asset/17934696… #candydarling #olympics #LGBT #gaypride #stonewall #warhol

Happy Pride! Three revelatory books to celebrate: Candy Darling, by Cynthia Carr; A Place of Our Own June Thomas; The Other Olympians Michael Waters. Each important and marvelous, as Gus Rosendale & I discuss. 📚🏳️‍🌈 nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen… #candydarling #olympics #LGBT #gaypride

What so proudly we hailed. #flag #IndependenceDay #fireisland #lgbt #rainbowflag #cherrygrove #4thJuly #4thofJuly #gaypride #gayUSA #gayamerican #USA #starsandstripes

Bedroom fireworks. #4thofJuly #MacysFireworks #IndependenceDay2024 #fireworks #nyc #HudsonRiver #skyview #4th #westvillage #NYC

Don't miss the marvelous novels All the Colors of the Dark Chris Whitaker & Small Rain Garth Greenwell; totally different, equally brilliant. Jen Maxfield & I discuss why the ideal companion is Evan Friss The Bookshop. nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen… #books #read #book #bookstore

Banned Books Week has ended; book bans have not. #Libraries are a shared inheritance. Pat Battle Gus Rosendale & I talk about endangered books and why they must remain available to all. nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen… #bannedbooks #genderqueer #bannedbooksweek #bluesteye #readbannedbooks

Fall novels for any season, every mood: Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red; The Sequel Jean Hanff Korelitz; Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst. "He had to read novels in order to understand the sensations that engulfed him," a line from The Mighty Red I wont't forget. pilot.latakoo.com/asset/18864472…

Pat has a point! Pat Battle Gus Rosendale & I talk about #biographies unputdownable for different reasons: John Lewis by David Greenberg; Craig Brown's Q: A Voyage Around the Queen; Paper of Wreckage, by Susan Mulcahy & Frank DiGiacomo. nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen…