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The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an American Classic by Kendall Taylor

The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an American Classic by Kendall Taylor

by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 13, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books, History

In 2001, cultural historian Kendall Taylor, Ph.D. published Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage. Now Taylor returns to the same subject matter in The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an American Classic. In the...
Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class edited by Michelle Tea

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class edited by Michelle Tea

by Sarah Hutchins | Oct 10, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Social Science

As several of the nearly thirty essayists mention editor Michelle Tea’s collection Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, the very fact that they’re writers gives them a certain privilege, perspective, or both not shared by their parents or...
The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process by Francesca Lia Block

The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process by Francesca Lia Block

by Sarah Hutchins | Sep 21, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference, Self-Help

Part autobiography and part writing manual, Francesca Lia Block’s The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process – aptly named after a Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait – discusses growing up in 1980s LA, where she famously sets her...
This is Portland: The City You’ve Heard You Should Like by Alexander Barrett and Andrew Dickson

This is Portland: The City You’ve Heard You Should Like by Alexander Barrett and Andrew Dickson

by Sarah Hutchins | Aug 17, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Portland Publishers, Travel

Books, bridges, beards, and beer are a sampling of the cultural aspects Alexander Barrett and Andrew Dickson touch on in This is Portland: The City You’ve Heard You Should Like. Before Alexander Barrett moved to Portland, everyone told him it was the best city ever...
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore

See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore

by Sarah Hutchins | Jul 31, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference

Within the opening sentence, Lorrie Moore explains that the title of this book – See What Can Be Done – is not a boast but an instruction she received with almost every note from the editor of The New York Review of Books. “It was a magical request, and it...
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