Zoë Lance.

  • What I Read: February 2017

    2017 is my year of reading books written by women. Here’s what I read in February: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. This is the first of anything I’ve ever read from Margaret Atwood, and two things brought me to this novel: the upcoming Hulu show, and its resurgence in literary discourse as an example of…

  • What I Read: January 2017

    2017 is my year of reading books written by women. Here’s what I read in January: Warsan Shire’s Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth.  Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth has been on my to-read list for quite some time, far before Shire’s involvement in Beyonce’s Lemonade. You may have seen the Somali writer and…

  • Think Tank: My Year of Reading Books by Women

    In 2016, I had two crystallizing experiences about the kinds of books I read. Crystallizing Experience #1: I have had a Barnes and Noble edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray that I bought in high school for no reason I can remember and never got around to finishing. I recall trying to get through the first two chapters…

  • What I Read: December 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I documented the books I read all year. I want to make sure I get out some thoughts close enough to December, so I’m sticking with the three-sentence model I’ve been using the past few months. Here’s what I read at the end of 2016:…

  • 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: August & September 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. I normally write a few paragraphs about each book, but to switch it up and challenge myself I’m only going to write three-sentence reviews. Let’s go — here’s what I read in August and September: Viet Thanh…

  • What I Read: July 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 July: Hassan Blasim’s The Corpse Exhibition. I first heard about The Corpse Exhibition at a literature lecture at my alma mater. I keep a small notebook in my purse at all times…

  • 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…

  • What I Read: April 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here is what I read in April: My Life On The Road, by Gloria Steinem: Gloria Steinem’s memoir had been on my reading list for awhile, because although I’ve read about her I wanted to learn more about who she is…

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