Books, Arts, and Culture

When I was introduced to the world of Dungeons & Dragons many moons ago, no one warned me about the risk of DICE HOARDING. It is...

2022 was, for me, cleaved in half, courtesy of a cataclysmic heartbreak that fell right at the year’s midpoint. I didn’t realize how neatly the year...

Winter I: On the tail end of a months-long Edith Wharton bender, I embarked on Hermione Lee’s biography, where she calmly, authoritatively, and hypnotically lays out...

I sold a book this past year, a memoir in essays that now I have to… actually sit down and write. So I’ve spent a lot...

I am a writer and a literary agent, which means between my personal and professional lives, much of my time is spent reading—for work, for research,...

Reading—my most familiar and constant activity—has been more of a struggle for me during the pandemic years. There are the obvious distractions—stress, panic, despair, etc. But...