Sinners and Strivers

  By total accident I finished Slaughterhouse 5 on Veterans Day, so it especially sank in as a great anti-war novel. This was my second read...

 "For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep...

  I first read Cormack McCarthy's Blood Meridian in the summer after I graduated from college. I had abandoned my dream of being a secon...

  In the summer of 2007, my AP literature summer reading project was to read a great piece of literature, watch the/movie version, and write...

  A podcaster I really enjoy once referred to having cool older siblings as "playing the game on easy mode", referring to high sch...

  Books like Crime and Punishment make me genuinely despair that Americans don't read anymore. When I was in high school, I was a disaf...

I have a very literarily inclined friend who, when I told I was rereading Infinite Jest this year, told me to keep him abreast of my though...