With a collection of diary entries ranging from 2003 to 2020, David Sedaris is back and better than ever as an essayist and humorist. I’ve read several of Sedaris’ other books, including When You Are Engulfed in Flames and Me Talk Pretty One Day.… Continue reading
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When his novel All The Light We Cannot See was published, Anthony Doerr established himself as a master of the non-linear narrative. His newest release, Cloud Cuckoo Land, showcases the exact same type of mastery, but with higher stakes this time—five characters, five complex points of view.… Continue reading
Sure, January is the dreariest month and February is the shortest month, but I found no shortage of thought-provoking literary commentaries to enjoy while hiding indoors and warming my feet next my space heater. As temperatures plummeted and snowstorms raged outside, I kept my intellect warm with reviews, interviews, and roundups of popular and emerging books.… Continue reading
“I am a bad mother, but I’m learning to be good.”
This is the mantra that Frida and her fellow moms must recite as they enter a yearlong program that will determine the status of their parental rights. During a “very bad day” in which she leaves her daughter, Harriet, alone for two hours, Frida is reported by her neighbors and finds herself swept away from motherhood by a “new and improved,” hyper-surveillant Child Protective Services program.… Continue reading
In his genre-bending novel Appleseed, Matt Bell offers an ambitious take on the horror of a climate doomed past the point of saving. As he lays out three storylines that transcend the traditionally distinct categorizations of fantasy, fable, sci-fi, and climate fiction, readers are invited into a world whose slow destruction by forces of human greed and exploitation is painfully familiar.… Continue reading
