Sinners and Strivers

Over the years, I've hosted a handful of Town Hall events spotlighting Medicare for All to various communities across the state, from un...

  Before I went off to college, I read Gore Vidal's Burr . I had read a friend's review of it and loved the idea of a book that real...

  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...