December 31, 2018
Devils, Unicorns, and Fever Dreams: My 2018 Reading List
As 2018 drew to a close and the literary internet was flooded with “Best of 2018” book lists, I noticed a fair amount of backlash against these lists—namely, that they […]
December 28, 2018
On Rereading Books
Each year, as I look over my list of all the books I’ve read (and listened to) in the past year, I always take note of the books I chose […]
April 6, 2018
In Defense of “Show Don’t Tell”
Part One of Mark McGurl’s The Program Era (2009), the now-classic history of the influence of writing programs on twentieth-century American literature, uses as its title two of the hallmark […]
July 31, 2015
Milo Forever
One of the nice but sort of odd things about being a KR blogger is that I can write about nearly anything I want. If I find myself at a […]