[Sorry for the late posting, all. There was some family health drama this past week that slowed me down.] A feminist in the generation that followed Miller, how could I not fall deeply into this book? An English major in…

[J is an old friend, a cultural historian who is an academic but chooses to write for a general, not academic, audience.] Dear J, As we’ve talked about on our bike rides, I feel like there may be a story…

I woke up this morning to Victoria’s comment, now read Sandy’s response, and feel like, “What else is there to say?” Thanks to you both! This was a gorgeous example of the form I love. The art and the use…

I am a fan. I absolutely loved A Little Devil in America; I follow Abdurraqib on social media; I went to hear shows in a musical series he curated because he’d curated it. He is a genius, knows everything, wears…

“I know that there is no way in which K’s death would not have been very sad for you, but the fact that it was so sudden, so unexpected, must make it very difficult to assimilate in a different way.…

A “persona.” Sigh. For a minute, I understand what Gornick means…and then I don’t. I really liked her example of the diary she couldn’t use… and then could, realizing as she worked that she now “had a narrator on the…

About halfway through the 90-minute journey, Adriana reached behind the pilot’s seat, pulled out a mask attached to an oxygen tank, and passed it to Francisco as he flew. Ana Cristina and I, in the back, looked at each other,…

When reading Eve’s Hollywood, I kept marveling at how little Eve talked about her parents, her siblings. There are the two chapters up front about her grandparents but she does not dissect her family of origin in the way most…