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A Year in Reading: Jennine Capó Crucet

While I promise that I’ve read more than three books this year, the three that I kept rereading and recommending to anyone and everyone were J’s , ’s , and s . In writing out that sentence, I realize that they are, respectively, by a poet, and an essay collection—so they work as a sort of procession in form to me, a fact I find delightful (to borrow Ross Gay’s word, which I’m doing here delightfully).

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