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A Year in Reading at The Millions
One of my favorite end-of-year events is The Millions’ A Year in Reading. It’s not a best-of list, or a movers-and-shakers ranking, but rather a freeform exercise in reflection: The Millions has...
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Isak Dinesen, Her Own Heroine, at The Millions
Some people just seem to hit the ground running, focusing in on a particular path or lifestyle choice with a kind of laserlike precision. They walk out of college—even high school—with a clear idea of...
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Walker Percy, The Original Moviegoer, at The Millions
This may have been a milder winter than most, but it’s still a time of year that lends itself to indulging in those low-light, indoor activities. And no, I’m not plugging The Kama Sutra again—I’m...
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Mary Wesley, a Post-40 Bloomer at The Millions
If you’re in the mood for a little arsenic without the old lace, a little posh smut, some Jane Austen with sex… or if you just want to learn a bit more about Mary Wesley, a wild woman of letters who...
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Post-Summer at Like Fire, and a Post-40 Bloomer at The Millions
Hello hello, loyal friends! We’re back from our brief end-of-summer hiatus, batteries presumably recharged, as we hope yours are as well. Fall is in the air here in New York today, and many ideas are...
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NPR’s Concierge Care
This time of year brings out not only the list-makers, but the list-lovers and list-haters as well. The literary ether seems to be especially ripe for that kind of debate, maybe because these...
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