Dec 30, 2020
Review of Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
Crawford's memoir lays bare systemic lies, gross injustices, horrifying abuses of privilege and power, and longstanding patterns of...
Dec 15, 2020
Review of I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Brown shares moments of reckoning, everyday evidence of yawning racial divides, and her insistent joy in embracing her black identity and...
Dec 14, 2020
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/20 Edition
01 Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford Crawford thought the trauma of her assault at St. Paul's boarding school decades...
Nov 30, 2020
Review of Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time in Kendrick's funny, honest, often wonderfully wacky point of view. In...
Nov 25, 2020
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition
01 The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren Christina Lauren is the pen name for Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, who write as a team....
Nov 2, 2020
Review of Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan
Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny. I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout...
Oct 26, 2020
Review of Wild Life by Keena Roberts
Roberts reflects upon her identity and place in the world in a raw and genuine way that I found gripping. Keena Roberts grew up splitting...
Oct 15, 2020
Review of Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
Blood reads like an unflinchingly honest journal; Moorer sifts through memories, photos, joyful moments; she feels rage, sadness, and loss.
Oct 12, 2020
Review of The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
Wizenberg struggles to reconcile her identity, sexuality, love, and duty into an honest lifestyle.
Oct 7, 2020
Three Memoirs I'm Reading Now, 10/7/20 Edition
01 Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, Roberts 02 Blood: A Memoir, Moorer 03 The Fixed Stars, Wizenberg
Sep 13, 2020
Review of A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost
Colin Jost retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live and offers insights that I found absorbing.
May 24, 2020
Review of Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Miller is a beautiful, powerful writer with clear arguments and a compelling story of her own.