Literature

The Ten Year Affair

October 29, 2025

This is one of my favorite books of the year! A really clever way to tell a thoughtful story. Excellent writing with great story pacing…

Flesh

October 15, 2025

Disclaimer - this has big English Major energy and a bit of a Russian literature vibe. This book is about masculine loneliness and emptiness, and…

Playworld

August 20, 2025

This is a compelling coming-of-age story about the awkward phase between childhood and adulthood. Adam Ross is a great crafter of words and sequences, and…

The Bright Years

August 6, 2025

This is a generational family saga set in Texas about the choices we make that we don’t talk about and how they shape the trajectory…

My Friends

July 16, 2025

I was struck by how human, raw, and emotional the story was. A great story about found family, memories of your youth, grief, hope and…

North Woods

January 22, 2025

The story follows various groupings of people who are either hiding from something or needing some renewal from nature and the woods, and it is…

Martyr!

December 11, 2024

This story is about a man who is trying to understand himself, and the way that it’s executed and examined is really lyrically elegant and…

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

August 9, 2023

My Monticello

October 20, 2021

I don't like short story fiction because I like to be immersed for 600 pages, but I loved these five stories so much. The first…

The Good Luck of Right Now

October 5, 2016

An incredibly sweet story about grief and acceptance from the author of The Silver Linings Playbook.