A Year in Reading: Jenny Wu
In 2022, I reviewed 13 books, including Emily Hall’s The Longcut, Chelsea Martin’s Tell Me I’m an Artist, Li Zi Shu’s The Age of Goodbyes, and João Gilberto Noll’s Hugs and Cuddles. Between reviews, I read for pleasure, browsing library stacks and store windows, jotting down titles and authors referenced in the books I owned, as if, once decoded, they would unravel into reading lists.
Using the latter of these methods, I discovered . had mentioned in her book as an example of “satire focused on the Venn was a raucous read, beginning, “I left Claude, the French rat,” and ending with an orgy in the Chelsea Hotel, after which the narrator observes:
