Drama King
Evidently, one has many experiences as an actor that are incommunicable, or at least not directly communicated. But this is not so isolating as it may seem. Pacino has come…
I Am a Truck
by Michelle Winters
Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals
The twin tragedies alter the understanding of the themes of Frankenstein. It is often read as a warning about the perils of science, but as the daughter of Wollstonecraft, England’s…
My Brilliant Frenemy
The contentious bond between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz
I Want You to Want Me
Charlotte Shane discusses desire, sex work, and writing
Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car
Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days
Sex and Christianity: 2,000 years of love and fury
What were Jesus's views on sex? Why did so many Christians choose a life of celibacy? Has the church ever been tolerant of homosexuality? These are some of the questions…
All the books I read in 2024
Felicityby Joyce Y. NgPacific Dreamby Vincent LauMemento Amorisby Anya MartinSACRED BODIESby VERHere Be MonstersBonesIn Fair Verona by Val Wiseby Val WiseLeaf LitterJarod K AndersonA Taste of LifeSara ParetskyAutism Is Not…
What’s Left Out: The Poems That Haunt a Collection From the Outside
At a dinner table packed with writers and book people at the 2024 Western Carolina University Spring Literary Festival, held in April in Cullowhee, North Carolina, the cofounder of Gold…