Monthly Archives: June 2014

June 28

What Stacy and Her Boys are Reading Now

Happy Summer, reader friends! In the six weeks since my semester ended I’ve done a bunch of running around – both literally (another 1⁄2 marathon and a trail race) and metaphorically (moving, quick work trip to Iowa City, teaching a Shakespeare class at a prison – more on that in a future blog post). But, […]

June 23

The Marriage Plot

Although it has spent a solid couple of years languishing on my bedside table, I finally picked up Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot a few days ago.  If I’ve done anything else the last few days, it has only been reluctantly, since this is a book I have despaired putting down and parting with, even […]

What are you reading this summer?

I have started so many posts for this blog in my head over the past few months.  A post about My Age of Anxiety, which I actually finished ages ago and would probably have to reread at this point to properly write about.  A post about Mary Szybist’s Incarnadine and another about Leslie Jamison’s The […]