Maya Angelou’s “Martial Choreograph”
Maya Angelou has long been the type of artist whose work gets consumed by reputation. It’s been hard to have a conversation about her that doesn’t get bogged down in parody or the inevitable...
View Articleprotip: don’t judge Maya Angelou’s poetry if you aren’t familiar with it
So I alluded to this in my last post, but it’s worth making it more explicit: unless you can name three of Maya Angelou’s collections without Googling, and unless you are familiar with her work from...
View Articlein order to read, start reading
That post title might sound snotty, but I assure you that I mean it in just the opposite sense. I’m inspired by Corey Robin’s piece about riding the subway in order to find the time and space to read...
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actually, people would rather be known for confessing to not reading than to...
So here’s this Mallory Ortberg post about lying about having read books you haven’t read. Ortberg: It is possible, I suppose, that you are the sort of self-actualized person who has never once...
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The Giving Tree is not rational
There were two takes on Shel Silverstein’s simultaneously beloved and derided The Giving Tree in the Times recently, one from Anna Holmes and one from Rivka Galchen. Holmes, though characteristically...
View Articlemodern computer games just have way too much going on
So I got Dragon Age Inquisition as a present for myself for getting through the bulk of my job applications. It’s the first time I’ve bought a computer game that wasn’t on sale in a long time. So far...
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some recommendations for the aspiring fancypants
I’m working on a piece right now for another publication. I’m excited about it and hope to be able to share it soon. Below, you’ll find a section that the editor and I decided didn’t really fit with...
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David Copperfield
I’ve been reading David Copperfield for the last month or two. I figured Dickens was perfect for the winter, and so far I’ve been happily proven right. Most of my Dickens reading came from a single,...
View ArticleTS Eliot’s “Preludes”
This one you can chalk up to “it’s my website and I’ll post what I want to.” Here’s me doing a reading of TS Eliot’s “Preludes” from his book Prufrock and Other Observations, which you can read below....
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