Zoë Lance.

  • What I Read: October & November 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. I liked the three-sentence reviews I wrote for August and September, so I’m going to do that again. Here’s what I read in October and November: Joan Didion’s Where I Was From. Every time I read a…

  • Link Party: 10/29-11/20

    There hasn’t been much Link Partying around here lately. I need to fix that, and I promise to be more consistent in the last few weeks of 2016 and into 2017. Here’s a party to last you all week. Take your pick: 1. An interview with Frank Ocean. 2. Zadie Smith on the dancers that inspire…

  • Link Party: 10/3-10/7

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives the best advice. 2. Barack Obama on five days that shaped his presidency. 3. A letter of complaint for Cards Against Humanity. 4. Elena Ferrante and the myth that female artists owe us something more than just their work. 5. An excerpt from a…

  • What I Read: June 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here’s what I read in June: David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. I bought this 23-story fiction collection at The Last Bookstore approximately 1 million years ago, and finally pulled it out of my bookshelf at…

  • What I Read: May 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here’s what I read in May: Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things. I bought this book a few years ago for a class where it ended up getting replaced on the syllabus, but I figured I…

  • Link Party: 4/11-4/15

    I had a great week, and I hope you did too. Here’s what I read: 1. This is a fascinating read on Minecraft and the kids that play it. 2. Instagram is ruining vacation. 3. What working at Sephora is like. 4. The miniskirt‘s unabashedly feminist history. 5. A conversation with Elena Ferrante. And a bonus:…

  • What I Read: March 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here’s what I read in March: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller: I hadn’t read this book in high school or college, so while filling a ThriftBooks binge I decided to give Catch-22 a go. I knew that it was a…