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…
Maggie Nelson’s “Bluets”
Bluets Maggie Nelson “Bluets” is an essay written in short bursts, meditations in miniature on the color blue and all its Western connotations, on depression, on sex, on tranquility and…
The Grapes of Wrath and the Journals Behind the Book
The Grapes of Wrath is another one of those American classics that I somehow avoided reading in high school. Getting to read all of these canonical tomes as an adult…
Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”
Steinbeck's prose has never been -for me, at least- so strong a thing as to recommend his writing to me in and of itself. Fortunately, the man is a compelling…