Maria Bamford’s “Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult” is an incredible, deeply personal memoir that gives her audience a glimpse into…
The Graphic World of Junji Ito
Over the past year, I have read most of the available Junji Ito in translation, and boy, is it a…
Tears from Waltham to Boston: Zalkind’s The Waltham Murders
Zalkind’s The Waltham Murders is a wildly engaging true crime book about the improbable murders the author is directly connected…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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,…
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…
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