There’s something of an old west feeling about Hannah Tinti’s novel, The Twelve Live of Samuel Hawley even though it a lot of the book takes place in the here and now. There’s no time…
Date Archives July 2017
Three Recent Reads
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi One of my weaknesses as a reader, and as a human, is that I’m not too keen on history. I don’t like to read about olden times. If a book takes…
Petty Bitchery: Out of Control Pop Culture Lists & the Death of Curation
Here’s the thing I want to bitch about today: ridiculous lists. First I know that classifying, judging, ranking art and pop culture is stupid nonsense. So shut up. But it’s fun stupid nonsense and the…
Wisconsinality
Recently, a friend pointed out on Twitter that a book he was reading would drive me bonkers because it touched upon very many of my literary pet peeves. “Dick Lit to the extreme. Selfish, sad-sack,…
July Intentions: One More Time With Feeling
Yesterday as I was on the phone talking to my friend EM, who lives in Madison, I confessed that I had failed miserably at my June Intentions. And she gently pointed out that of course…