Zoë Lance.

  • Link Party: 3/27-3/31

    March was a marathon month, and I suspect the next 30 days are going to feel like a sprint. I kickstarted April with a day trip in and around the desert: a wildflower walk, a mirrored house art installation and the best milkshakes. April, here I come — no bad days. Here’s what I’ve read…

  • Link Party: 2/13-2/17

    Here’s something I want to share that recently came back to me — in an episode of Twin Peaks (side note: I have a soft spot for this show and I hope the revival isn’t garbage), FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper gives the Twin Peaks sheriff, Harry Truman, a solid gold piece of advice. “Harry, I’m going…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Link Party: 5/2-5/6

    This week was a great week in Internet writing. Here’s what I read: 1. This new Joan Didion piece is just her notes from reporting on the Patty Hearst trial in the 1970s, and it’s still incredible writing. I am in awe. 2. America and Allrecipes. 3. The eternal magic of Beirut. 4. The stories of…

  • Link Party: 2/8-2/12

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. A bikini, a toothbrush and 44 issues of the New Yorker. 2. I will read anything about Joan Didion, especially in connection to Los Angeles. 3. I’ve been meaning to read Aziz Ansari’s “Modern Romance” for awhile, but after reading this excerpt about texting I really want to…

  • 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: 7/20-7/24

    I had a good week and I hope you did too. Here’s what I read: 1. A Paul Ford discussion on Internet security in light of both the Ashley Madison hacks and the latest Gawker controversy. 2. I finished “The White Album” earlier this week, so I am loving this Paris Review interview with Joan Didion. 3. Inside couture…

  • Culture Connoisseur: Joan Didion

    As an English major, I’ve read a lot of books. There have been books I thoroughly enjoyed (Infinite Jest or Absalom, Absalom! for example), books I thought were just okay (Animal Farm and Of Mice and Men) and books I really really really really disliked (Huckleberry Finn and The Fault in Our Stars). And although I can…