This was easily my favorite book of my 2024 year of reading, and coming from one of my favorite writers … More
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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
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
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
While I was not the prime audience for this collection, there were some excellent essays by the incomparable queer humorist … 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
Three-Fifths by John Vercher
John Vercher’s Three-Fifths is a harrowing and captivating character study on the various ways race and identity interplay when one … More
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich and Black Dandy #2
I was asked to read Idaho by one of Ruskovich’s colleagues and another one of her mentors who both mentored … More
Garrett Zecker 