Category: Recommended

I'm going on record as an official fan of the new Will series. I was skeptical. I generally avoid overly promoted commercialized versions of beloved works, authors and studies. But, yes, the series had me at "London Calling." Then it had me again with this seriously sexy-twisted version of Christopher Marlowe, ... Read More

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton is a big inspiration for my poetry. As a former professor at my alma mater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, I've heard a lot about Lucille Clifton these past four years, and for good reason. I admire ... Read More

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara I've had more compelling conversations about Hanya Yanagihara's amazing, frustrating, beautiful novel about four friends living their post-college life in New York. Over the course of several decades and navigating into past and present, we see these four men struggle to succeed and often ... Read More

"The Semplica Girl Diaries." This is such a tightrope walk of grim humor and sadness. The story also contains one of the weirdest (and weirdly moving) examples of "people as commodities" that you can think of.  "The Semplica Girl Diaries" can be found in The New Yorker. Also found in his short ... Read More