The Nix by Nathan Hill was the It book of late summer. Everywhere you turned there was effusive praise and comparisons to John Irving and Charles Dickens, and while I can generally avoid these kinds…
Posts tagged nonfiction
For Your Consideration: ‘Bad Feminist’ As Required Reading
I don’t read a lot of nonfiction. Bad Feminist made me think I need to change that. Roxane Gay’s collection of essays spans a wide array of topics, but the most relevant ones, I found,…
On ‘sink or swim’ spectrum, ‘Unfamiliar Fishes’ treads water
On the first day of my eleventh-grade history class, my teacher told us we wouldn’t be learning about wars and kings. Instead, we’d be studying art movements, political trends, epidemics, religious tumult, and other agents…
I’m just a girl
Nothing amps the saturation levels of my vanilla teen years like a coming-of-age collection of comics by someone similarly aged who knew what strawberry bidis were as a ninth grader. Me, age 37, Googling. A:…
My Friend Dahmer
If you’ve ever known a serial killer, you know that there is a pre-kill period ripe for mining. Instances in a life that foreshadowed the dismembered body stuffed into a drain pipe (or the family…