Writing the good read
I remember hearing David Rakoff on This American Life and thinking he was David Sedaris, one of my favorite TAL contributors and authors, with a distinctive voice that makes everything he says funnier. I didn’t know he wrote books, too. But after he died of cancer at 47 last year, there was a lot of…
Earlier this month, I wrote about my new-found respect for Phillip Lopate, regarded as one of the best living writers of thepersonal essay. I wanted to expand my knowledge of the genre — and I had never thought of it as that before, but as the way some writers opine on a variety of subjects…
I know some of you are probably hurting for ideas of what to get your dad for Father’s Day on Sunday. I’m here to help. In case you didn’t know, I like to read. So I’ve culled through the books I’ve read in the last few months for five that might be good options to…
I have a problem with books in that I read a lot of them and will forgo sleep to keep turning the pages of a good one. And I invariably pick good books. For the last week or so, I’ve been plowing through the trilogy on which the PBS series Call the Midwife is based….