Zoë Lance.

  • Think Tank: The Case for New Year’s Goals

    I like the sentiment of making New Year’s resolutions in anticipation of having a wonderful year. The weird in between weeks of one year to the next is a great time to look back and see how to improve your life. I admire people who want to learn new languages, travel more, save money or lose…

  • Link Party: 12/21-12/25

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. I first heard excerpts of Gay Talese’s “Frank Sinatra Has A Cold” on This American Life in an episode for Sinatra’s 100th birthday, and the full article is stellar. 2. What the Mast Brothers chocolate scandal tells us about ourselves. 3. I’m not entirely sold on the merits of…

  • Culture Connoisseur: The Best Books I Read in 2015

    In 2015, I read a respectable 41 books. While I attribute part of the 41 to being a literature student, I read most of the 41 in the last six months post-graduation. I told myself that I would work on filling in the gaps of my literature education and catching up with recent releases, and…

  • Link Party: 12/14-12/18

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Meet the stylist with an insane vintage clothing collection that Kanye West and Rihanna like to borrow. 2. I cosign this Album of the Year nomination for the “Hamilton” soundtrack. 3. I don’t usually read a lot of sports journalism, but this personal essay about childhood abuse from a…

  • Post-Grad Adventures: Thoughts of a Commuter

    For my entire life, I have lived in the same house in the same Southern California town of about 50,000 people. I can drive from one end of town to the other in about 10 minutes. Just about every local shopping center has a huge parking lot, and I don’t think there are any parking meters…

  • Link Party: 12/7-12/11

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Author Jhumpa Lahiri shares her beautiful story of learning Italian. 2. Star Wars: The Merch Awakens. (I love this headline a lot.) 3. I love this idea for a bookstore: curated collections and a more personal experience. 4. A bunch of words will disappear from the verbal section…

  • Link Party: 11/30-12/4

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Read about the original culinary road warriors and their quest to document American cuisine. 2. Sifting through the trash of San Francisco to find art. 3. Tattoos in the fine art world. 4. I didn’t know a lot about SoulCycle besides it being a very expensive spin class, but after reading…

  • Post-Grad Adventures: Being An English Major

    A new series. Life after college is kind of weird. While you’re trying to figure yourself out and what you want, you’re also trying to figure the world out and your place in it. In the last six months, I’ve thought a lot about who I am as a person, what my strengths and weaknesses are…