Culture Essentials for October

I’ll be honest, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by how much I want to read, watch and see right now. After writing about Jesmyn Ward’s new novel Sing, Unburied, Sing in last month’s Culture Essentials, I went down a serious rabbithole and have been voraciously consuming all her work, while also keeping in mind that Jennifer Egan has a new book out on Oct. 3, and there’s a stack of library books next to my bed that I still need to get to, as well, not the least