I apologize for getting this in late… During our last class, someone mentioned that they loved this podcast, so immediately I was very intrigued and excited to start listening. I listen to podcasts a lot. But I keep being stuck…

Listening to this podcast, I was interested in the subject. By the life of Selena. She was killed when I was only two years old so her fame was before my time. Because the genre of her music is not…

I sat on the window sill at The Sheraton Hotel that was located by LAX. The sun was about to set and I watched the planes take off below the beautiful light pink sky—one by one. I counted the seconds…

In the article How I told my friends I was writing about my childhood—and what they said in return, Mary Karr says, “As soon as you start to leave things out—to shape a tale—you’re maneuvering the actual. Can I tell…

What really stood out to me while reading this biography was the relationship between mother and daughter and the respect and admiration one had for the other. From the very beginning it was clear how much pride, though a secret,…

* Having grown up in poverty herself, as it traveled from generation to generation. In her time, and in the area of the country that she grew up in in rural Iceland, it was common for children to be given…

Never having read anything by Eve Babitz, I was excited about this particular book as I used to live in Hollywood myself. So I was prepared, should I say, to be taken back. I used to live on North Visa Street,…