Today on the online magazine The Millions, I’m taking part in the annual A Year In Reading series, talking about two books which really struck me during the course of 2011: Gillian Rose’s memoir Love’s Work and Jonathan Lethem’s non-fiction collection The Ecstasy of Influence. The Year In Reading series is well worth a read – it’s been going on all month, and includes contributions by Geoff Dyer, Jennifer Egan, Deborah Eisenberg, Ben Marcus, Parul Sehgal, Emma Straub, David Vann and many others.