Jenny Lawson, better known by her online persona The Bloggess, is just damn funny. Of course, if you’ve been reading her incredibly popular blog for very long… Read more “Jenny Lawson, Mental Health, and Weird Taxidermy”
Category: Books
Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned
Where do you go when you have no home? Wherever you are welcomed, naturally. Or supernaturally in the case of Ray Bradbury’s classic (redundant, I know) From the… Read more “Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned”
A Review of Chelsea Martin’s Even Though I Don’t Miss You
Chelsea Martin’s Even Though I Don’t Miss You (Short Flight / Long Drive, 2013) is about the end of a relationship that has only lasted as long… Read more “A Review of Chelsea Martin’s Even Though I Don’t Miss You”
Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson’s classic haunted house tale The Haunting of Hill House is one of the best executed examples of the genre anywhere in literature. The book’s pervading sense of dread… Read more “Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House”
Childhood and Mortality in Two Very Different Books
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the way childhood memories tease and flirt with our sense of mortality. I’ve read two books recently that speak to… Read more “Childhood and Mortality in Two Very Different Books”
Pronounced guh-nah-dee
Very early in his 2013 booklet The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad from Pioneers Press, Adam Gnade writes the following in a list about “navigating… Read more “Pronounced guh-nah-dee”
Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at… Read more “Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle”
Dubious Lexicon: A Review of Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
I feel like I’ve been shoving the pit of Four-Legged Girl around with my nose for weeks like my cat when she’s unsure if she’s able and… Read more “Dubious Lexicon: A Review of Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss”
Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes
No writer has ever understood the sad, strange, ecstatic wonder of Midwestern childhood like Ray Bradbury. The curious freedoms granted us away from cities, the teetering inner… Read more “Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes”
A Review of The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski
Van Brelinski’s The Girl Who Slept with God tells the story of an Evangelical Christian family–the Quanbecks–in Idaho in 1970, focusing on the middle daughter, Jory, who turns… Read more “A Review of The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski”
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