Notes
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Some Notes on The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
This year Santa sent a beautiful book to our family,* and I had to stop and…
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Reading Notes: Why Love Hurts by Eva Illouz
I’ve been slowly progressing through this remarkable book over the last couple of years. As an…
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Notes on Helen Phillips’s Some Possible Solutions
There is a strange quiet to the stories in this collection. They wade through an environmentally…
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Notes on Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau
It’s important to notice that, while she may be fiction, we do live in a world…
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Helen Phillips’ The Beautiful Bureaucrat
That is, until she finds a job entering data from the confines of a depressing, grey,…
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Reading Notes: The Creative Tarot by Jessa Crispin
Probably most well-known as the editor and founder of (the alas, soon to be former) Bookslut.com…
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Reading Notes: The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit’s prolific and varied career as a woman of letters is remarkable in its scope.…
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Reading Notes: Rivka Galchen’s American Innovations
Rivka Galchen: Canadian-born, Oklahoma-raised, New York City-dwelling author of a novel (Atmospheric Disturbances), a collection of…