The Plague of Doves, by Louise Erdrich, didn’t quite make sense to me until I […]
The Sunk Cost Fallacy, Reading, and Me
While I’ve gotten good at recognizing fairly early in a book whether or not I’ll […]
The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O’Neill
Several critics have written blurbs comparing The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O’Neill, to Erin Morgenstern’s The […]
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, by Matthew Sullivan
In a strange bit of serendipity, I finished watching Mindhunter on Netflix last night before I […]
The Houseguest, by Kim Brooks
What do we owe one another? This question and some of its variations keep coming […]
This week on the bookish internet
I’ve always loved the punchy definitions in Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary. (The Paris Review) Opening […]
The Man Who Spoke Snakish, by Andrus Kivirähk
I suspect that every generation thinks that they do things better than their parents and […]
The Book of Harlan, by Bernice L. McFadden
When he was born, Harlan’s grandmother described him as lazy. The omniscient narrator hypothesized that […]