Welcome to Big Reader Bad Grades
BRBG is a bookish newsletter that publishes every other day (pretty much). I talk about what I’m reading and about my jobs. You can also checkout my new/debut novel, Cubafruit at the link below!
Occasionally I’ll do some independent reporting on something in the literary world, as I did in my five-part series about how the late Cormac McCarthy, on his death bed, just barely pulled his final novel, 40-years-in-the-making, past the finish line. Or more recently, for The Metropolitan Review, my profile of William T. Vollmann and his 3,000-page novel, A Table for Fortune.
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Alexander Sorondo is the author of "Big Reader Bad Grades," a newsletter about books, culture, and work. His debut novel CUBAFRUIT came out in 2025. He works at a grocery store on Miami Beach.