Jessica Freeman-Slade, Kenyon College ’06, is an assistant editor at Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House, and has written reviews of literary fiction and nonfiction for the Millions, the Rumpus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She lives in Morningside Heights.
Summer 2013
Quicksilver Memories of an Invented World: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia
It’s hard to write about beautiful books. It’s not about a lack of material, specific details or turns of phrase that sing out long after you close the pages. Rather, the problem arises from finding ways to pin the beauty down.
Winter 2013
In the (Parents’) Basement: Leigh Stein’s The Fallback Plan
Here’s my prediction for future publishing seasons: one of the fruits of the recession will be a slew of narratives on arrested development.