books
My favorite discovery of 2010 was Meghan Daum. Her first book was a collection of essays called My Misspent Youth, and I read it this year at once aghast that I hadn’t known about it before, and grateful to be able to come to it both fresh and late. Soon after, I sat on a [...]
In this piece, Jessa really gets at the impossibility of reading the “right” books all the time:
The idea that as a literary person there are a certain set of books you must read because they are important parts of the literary conversation is constantly implied, yet quite ridiculous. Once you get done with the Musts [...]
And now for today’s accounting of things that are dead or otherwise over: Paste magazine. Heeb magazine. Felicity Merriman, the Revolutionary War-era American Girl doll (once owned and beloved by my childhood friend Joanna, whose mother wouldn’t buy her a doll tied to a more recent historical period because it wouldn’t have been educational enough). [...]
I know Flavorwire means well with this list of ten women writers they love—supposedly, it was inspired by the whole Jezebel/Daily Show fracas, and I guess any large-scale conversation About Women gets people thinking about where women are and are not in every area of art and life. But the fact remains that this is [...]