The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Full disclosure -I suffer from depression. I take medication and participate in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I have tried to manage this depression unmedicated -I have exercised and ate ideally, and…
West with the Night
I hadn't heard of Beryl Markham until a few weeks ago, when her name showed up in an article in conjunction with Hemingway, who was apparently a fan. Her memoir,…
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones is the second mythology-soaked literary account of Hurricane Katrina I've read in the last few months, which is odd, and completely unintentional, as I picked this book…
Books We Need to Read in Trump’s
In light of the inauguration of an American president with a now-indisputable fascist bent, I’ve put together a reading list for a Trump presidency. These books are either lesser-known or…
BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever
“BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever” is a Kindle Single written by Tony Horwitz, detailing his investigative reporting of as many aspects…
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus is a novel in three parts, a very common and standard thing with regard to form and execution. It is a story of adolescence and a trouble family,…
Blackout, Sarah Hepola, and Addiction Memoir
Sarah Hepola’s memoir Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget is probably the best memoir I read in 2016. It’s not only exceptionally well-written, it’s brutally self-honest and open…
Swamplandia!
So this is a book that got a lot of buzz a few years back. It took me a while to get to it. It took me a while to…
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
So this book won a shit-ton of prizes. Katherine Boo’s decision to depict strict nonfiction/reporting within a novelistic framework is ballsy as hell and hard to do, but she pulled…
If Chins Could Kill -Bruce Campbell
Don’t worry people, I’m still reading lit fic. But sometimes you just need to sit down and hear Bruce Campbell tell a bunch of stories about the ridiculous shit he’s…