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Category Archives: Nonfiction – Essays
To Stave Off That Feeling of Helplessness (And, OK, Also Because HAMILTON SOUNDTRACK)
When I started reading The Federalist a couple of nights ago, I didn’t know that it was about to become a blog challenge. I just thought I was expressing my abiding love for THE HAMILTON SOUNDTRACK in a characteristically nerdy … Continue reading
Thoughts on Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings
If this were 2012 or 2013, I would not be writing a review of this book. Back then, I was reading at a ridiculously rapid pace and only reviewing between a half and three quarters of what I read. I … Continue reading
Some Brief Thoughts from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
I had hoped to be finished with A Room of One’s Own by now, and I was going to write about Woolf’s manifesto side by side with Alice Munro’s story “The Office.” But it’s well past dinner and I still … Continue reading
A Review of Rick Steves’ Travel as a Political Act (by Bethany)
Up until recently, I worked at a chain of tutoring and learning centers in the Bay Area. Modeled on the Asian-style “cram school,” these centers offered one-on-one tutoring, SAT-, ACT-, and AP-prep classes, and other classes for younger students designed … Continue reading
A Review of Geoff Dyer’s Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It (by Bethany)
This book is not about yoga. Not in the slightest little bit. This book is many things – a collection of travel essays, a memoir of the early stages of a nervous breakdown, a contemplation of geography and history and time, a narrative … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 