Laxness is Dependably Frustrating in Independent People
After hating The Great Weaver of Kashmir without being able to dismiss its quality, I read Independent People and didn’t know what to think. My...
The Orphan Device
Writers are always reading, and usually on more than one level. I still remember the shock I felt the first time I saw a typo...
The Devil’s in the Details
One of my favorite bloggers once asked, “Why do we feel compelled to confess the stupid things we do on the internet?” Cleaning up computer...
In Which a Review of American Gods Turns into a Writing Riff
Fiction changes lives. I haven’t written fiction since middle school. (Except that one NaNo novel in 2008, but that was therapy.) Even so, I am...
Pollyblog: Maybe I Need a Book Group
. Once upon a book group I tried starting a book group in grad school. We were all broke grad students. So we didn’t require...