The day after you find out the biological father you never met died two years ago, you will find yourself at Target and realize you no longer have to scrutinize every tall man of a…
Date Archives September 2012
I went to Google & all I got was this crummy obituary
All I have are his name on my birth certificate and two fuzzy pictures from 1971. I keep those photos in my copy of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. I have for years. There’s no…
Not Buying It
To enjoy Kat Rosenfield’s young-adult novel Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone, you have to buy into the conceit that a pretty, blonde, recent college grad can disappear for two months without anyone raising an…
Heavy Metal Boys
The best thing about Gillian Flynn’s Dark Objects is that it allowed me to wax nostalgically about the Satanic Panic of the 80s, a phenomenon I had completely forgotten until this book. I don’t know…
Lit from within by the power of democracy
It snowed on Election Day 1992. I remember this because I had to walk about a mile to the polls to vote. It was my first time voting in a presidential election. Sure, I had…
Overheard at the bus stop
“Hey Mom, I feel like I have a proton pack on my back,” kid with large backpack. “This is probably how it feels to be a Ghostbuster.” “I started being nervous two nights ago,” Girl…