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

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

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

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

A Cultural Wasteland, an interview with Robert Lopez released

Garrett’s interview with Robert Lopez, author of A Better Class of People (2022) was released at The Collidescope today. Check … More

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr’s newest novel is an adventure unparalleled in not only the rest of his work but in today’s canon … More

Black Nerd Problems by Omar Holmon and William Evans

Black Nerd Problems is an incredible series of essays from a website that I honestly had not heard of prior … More