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

#549 Walkabout (1971)

What an incredible film. I picked up Nicholas Roeg’s Walkabout (1971, Criterion Spine #10) after doing a recent binge on … More

Florida Man Fun with Dave Barry’s Swamp Story

Dave Barry has always been an absolute powerhouse in my life as a reader and writer. By the time I … More

Bowie in 2023: #629 THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976), THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH by Walter Tevis, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH by Dan Watters, LAZARUS by David Bowie and Edna Walsh, ALWAYS CRASHING IN THE SAME CAR by Lance Olsen, BOWIE’S BOOKSHELF by John O’Connell, and DAVID BOWIE: THE LAST INTERVIEW 

Over the past few months, after being given a new novel about Bowie’s life to review for The Collidescope (at … More