In Cold Blood, Capote’s Invention of A Genre

This is one of those classics that I never read but had to pick up and learn quickly because it … More

Seeing the Impossible through The Eyes of Dave Eggers’ Johannes

This was easily my favorite book of my 2024 year of reading, and coming from one of my favorite writers … More

Enjoying the Grateful Life: Rea’s Death Wins A Goldfish and Miyakoshi’s Little Shrew

I don’t often review children’s books unless some striking, unusual, or cutting-edge elements to it blow me away. While that … More

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A beautiful, broadly modernist tale that explores the long-term relationships within families, the differences and drives of men and women, … More

Reading Through Anne Ernaux’s Nobel

Over the past year or so, I made my way through a big portion of Anne Ernaux’s writing in translation. … More

Coldiron’s Junk Film

Katharine Coldiron’s JUNK FILM is a book that was recommended to me for my voracious taste in tacky, unreliable, exploitative, … More

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

I have read a lot of Ray Bradbury but had never picked up this gorgeous reflection on growing up in … More

#763 The Color Purple (1985) and The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

Somehow it took me three English degrees, writing and teaching for over twenty years, and a hazy summer in 2023 … More

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

I picked up Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor as an entry on David Bowie’s essential top 100 books – and I am … More

Repo Man (1984)

This is one of those films that just happens to be on the Criterion Collection’s list, but not on the … More