My friend Katy and I discuss that most British of bands today—Oasis. We disagreed a bit. Read below to watch our friendship dismantle in real time (I… Read more “Katy and I Discuss the First Two Oasis Albums”
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Katy and I Discuss Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes Album
After our recent discussion of Hole’s Live Through This album, my friend Katy and I continued our 1990s nostalgia trek with this conversation about Tori Amos’s heart-rending… Read more “Katy and I Discuss Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes Album”
Katy and I Discuss Hole’s Live Through This Album
My friend Katy Goodwin-Bates and I discuss a lot of things—books, music… well, okay, we mostly just discuss books and music. But in this retrospective conversation about… Read more “Katy and I Discuss Hole’s Live Through This Album”
A Review of We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
We Were Witches, underground literary goddess Ariel Gore’s newest novel, should be required reading, and I’m not even going to amend that sentence to explain for whom.… Read more “A Review of We Were Witches by Ariel Gore”
A Review of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A.C. Wise
The characters of A.C. Wise‘s stories in The Kissing Booth Girl (Lethe Press, 2016) are outsiders, every one of them. Some have secrets and hide in plain sight, others… Read more “A Review of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A.C. Wise”
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld is a star everyone knows about but no one really knows, a sort of patron saint of weirdos. She was (is) strange, rebellious, perhaps the… Read more “Tuesday Weld”
Katy and I Discuss Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one Here is the U.S.,… Read more “Katy and I Discuss Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done”
A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid’s much-anticipated fourth novel Exit Westmakes deft use of a single fantastical element to create a magical realist novel of tremendous effect. Often, magical realism is an… Read more “A Review of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid”
Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook
Confession: I’ve never read any of Jeff Vandermeer’s fiction. Which makes it a little odd that I decided to read his book about writing, but in some… Read more “Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook”
Susan Kinsolving’s Dailies & Rushes: Poems
When I was a child, Moving scared me; every time I located my life, it wandered away once more. These words from Susan Kinsolving’s poem “In Preparation”… Read more “Susan Kinsolving’s Dailies & Rushes: Poems”
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