November 15, 2018
On Why I Like Travel Writing
Travel writing is a surprisingly divisive topic: I have quite a few literary friends who look down on the genre as a self-indulgent exercise, the product of privileged men and […]
January 8, 2017
Snowstorms and Speculation: My Abbreviated 2016 Reading List
I generally don’t make New Year’s resolutions, and I also don’t go out of my way to eat black-eyed peas or sauerkraut on January 1, but I do have a […]
July 29, 2016
Narrative Lessons from The Mosquito Coast
Years later, my mother would tell me how it worried her, my childhood obsession with The Mosquito Coast, which my family owned on VHS and which I insisted on watching […]