Author Archive
September 30, 2024In 2014, the New Yorker staff writer Emily Witt, then in her early 30s, ingested what’s known as a heroic dose of psilocybin mushrooms and was told, by the mushrooms, that her...
March 20, 2024'The Professor and Other Writings' by Terry Castle (2010) This collection of memoiristic critical essays is by far my most successful book recommendation. It includes a hilarious...
March 11, 2024In her short story “Five Signs of Disturbance,” Lydia Davis writes of a woman who is “frightened”: She cannot always decide whether what seems to her a sign...
February 19, 2024Something dramatic happens on a social media platform every day. On Goodreads, the anachronistically designed website for logging, rating (out of five) and...
