The Best New Books to Read This April

Lauren Hubbard

29 March 2018 at 5:03 pm

America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

Heads of the Colored People By Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean

You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley

Perhaps the nearest generational heir to Seinfeld's "show about nothing" ideology, beloved humorist and essayist Crosley brings her trademark wit and self-deprecation into a new phase of life. With her latest collection, the late-stage millennial finds herself dealing with the unpleasant realizations of her age - her irritation with a young, carousing neighbor; the questions of fertility and motherhood; and the fallibility of her body - as well as her travels, fights with the man holding her internet domain name hostage, and musings on celebrity inspired by an appearance on Gossip Girl.

Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley, $17, amazon.com on April 3. Buy

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Add Sloane Crosley, Meg Wolitzer, and more literary faves to your bookshelf this spring.

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