Sinners and Strivers

  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...

  Review of What is the What by Dave Eggers. It's important to read books like this. Let's talk about why.  What is the What by Dave...

  “Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children” - Sitting Bull In full authorial disclosure, after I read  ...