The U.S. Government and Literature
I do book reviews for Library Journal on a somewhat regular basis. Sometimes my editor will email me a list …
Category Archives: Nonfiction
The Origin of Others
We can probably all agree that Toni Morrison is pretty awesome. Her awesome is turned up to eleven in her …
The Emoji Code
I borrowed The Emoji Code: the Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats by Vyvyan Evans and after 71 pages …
A Hole in the Wind
What a wonderful little book A Hole in the Wind by David Goodrich turned out to be. I found it …
The Chicken Chronicles
A month or so ago Joan emailed me an article about chicken intelligence and in it was a quote by …
Trainwreck
I don’t know why I can’t seem to write a post about Trainwreck by Sady Doyle. I read it over …
Shout It Out Monday – History
I began reading Twilight of History by Shlomo Sand. Wow, is it going to be a thinker! The short preface …
Tell Me How It Ends
Last year I read Valeria Luiselli’s strange but enjoyable novel The Story of My Teeth so when I learned she …
The Mother of All Questions
I recently shared a quote from Rebecca Solnit’s new essay collection The Mother of All Questions, now I’ll share the …
The Ground Beneath Us
My heart and I lie small upon the earth like a grain of throbbing sand, – Red Bird, Dakota Sioux, …
