Shalom Auslander is not for the faint of heart or easily offended. His writing is angry, bitter, hilarious, some might even call it blasphemous. It will make you squirm. It’s uncomfortable and itchy and may…
Browsing Category Books
Some sign of my own
There was a span of time in the early to mid-aughts where I would buy every man I was romantically interested in a copy of An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender. I…
Beg to differ: 9 literary siblings who are much more interesting than Franny & Zooey
When I spied this list of cool literary siblings on Largehearted Boy’s Facebook wall I was all, “hell yes I love arbitrary lists of the bookish variety. Pop Culture Nerds love nothing more than to…
Something in red
Hilary Jordan’s novel When She Woke is a modern day mashup of The Scarlet Letter and The Handmaid’s Tale. In this futuristic United States abortion has been banned because some weird STD called The Scourge…
My Favorite Reads of 2011
Just like many pop culture nerds, I too like to impost arbitrary rules on any list I make. I think it imbibes the list with some significance, importance, or something else that lists of crap…