This has to be the whitest book I’ve ever read. Flagg’s newest (?) novel chronicles the evolution of Elmwood Springs, MO, from it’s origins as a Swedish immigrant farming settlement…
Contemporary U.S. Literature
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
August 1, 2017At first I was enchanted with this novel, but then I decided it’s bloated. Pessl is definitely a talented writer, and the novel eventually finds a plot, but it took…
State of Wonder
July 26, 2017I always swear that I’ll never teach Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness ever again, because I can’t face the thought of any more partially plagiarized essays about the symbolism of…
Above Us Only Sky
May 18, 2017This is the excerpt for a placeholder post.