The more you give yourself over to the world of Philadelphia in 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas, the better your experience will be. You have to get comfortable with menthol-smoking nine-year-old girls who are…
Posts tagged 2014 Books
Kissing Cousins
When a friend of mine said How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff had a better, more believable love story than John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, I was all in. Hell yes, I…
In Love with The Rat Queens
I’ve been needing something to hold me over between trades of Saga, one of the best comic book series I’ve read in a loooooonnnnnggg time (really, since Fables decided to get really kind of boring)….
Your Collarbones are Overrated: On ‘Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville’ by Gina Arnold
It is impossible for me to overstate the importance of Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” to me. The music on that album is as much a part of me as my rib cage or my…
Time-Stopping Orgasms without Emotional Stakes are Kind of a Snore
It feels a little weird to have a complaint about emotional realism in a book that centers around two people who have time-stopping orgasms. And yet, here I am complaining about it. I get that…