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 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…
Random Flashback: A Trip Through Billy Ocean’s Greatest Hits (all three of them)
In my memory Rick Marciniak serenades me with “Get Out of My Dreams, Get into My Car” (GOOMDGIMYC) after math class in 8th grade. He sings while walking beside me all the way from the…