Essays

• Accepting imperfection
• Slogging through Moby Dick
• Hard life, simple life
• Beware the hype
• The Internet failed me! My first Indiana read was a bust.
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – I need to understand!
• Flannery, my fire
• I do not recommend To Have and Have Not
• “Hello Maggie,” or “Thank you Maggie,” or even, “Goodbye, Maggie.”
• Reading outside of America
• Skipping ahead to Hawaii
• Hidden Amish
• Ski lodges, killers, and cookies: a Colorado win
• Sarajean Henry is my hero
• What’s up with the dead bodies?
• A dystopian California: not unimaginable
• Steinbeck, Steinbeck, he’s my man.
• Books are not enough
• I grew up on an island. How did I never read this?
• Poor preacher’s child
• California: a fat wave* of options
• Arkansas woes, post-Goldfinch spiral, and Henry Dumas is my savior
• Authors of Color From Each US State – A Photo Gallery
• Where are the ethnic authors?
• Dystopia – to go or not to go?
• It was November, and I was afraid
• Thanks Forrest. Now I miss seafood.
• White Girl Dancing
• Atticus Finch is my parenting role model
• It’s Official. I am reading America.
• It was getting unwieldy