NYPL Blog Recommends Ancestor Trouble
I love the New York Public Library, and am so grateful to history and genealogy librarian Serena Dresslar for recommending my book, Ancestor Trouble, in such outstanding company.
I love the New York Public Library, and am so grateful to history and genealogy librarian Serena Dresslar for recommending my book, Ancestor Trouble, in such outstanding company.
For the Art & Kinship installment in my latest newsletter, I write about Laila Lalami’s chilling new novel, The Dream Hotel, and the author reveals that her mother’s childhood in a Moroccan orphanage may have influenced the book.
Last week my pal Carrie Frye, editor of The Awl: The Book, texted me these photos of The Awl anthology, with so many great essays from former contributors. The book includes my own 2011 essay on a Rapture prediction that didn’t pan out, just in case you’ve ever wondered how long I’ve been on the End Times beat (my whole . . .
I’ve renamed my newsletter from Ancestor Trouble — still a focus and preoccupation — to Meditations on Kinship, which better reflects the breadth of my thinking and feeling and seems like a capacious home going forward. After considering other options, I’m staying on Substack for now. I’m unpersuaded that the alternatives are guaranteed to avoid platforming hate speech, but they . . .
I was surprised and delighted to discover a generous review of Ancestor Trouble by Deanna Korte in the latest issue of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Here’s an excerpt: Maud Newton, in a fascinating author debut, shows readers that our ‘obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves.’ Newton… takes the reader on a journey of genealogical exploration, . . .