Magazines In The Tub: I’ll Miss Glamour
When I was at my university’s gym, you could read magazines while running on the treadmill, bike or Stairmaster. It beat trying to read paperbacks…
Negative Vs. Positive Attention: Worth Remembering Lani Sarem?
On August 17, 2017, book Twitter noticed something was odd. A white woman’s YA novel had displaced The Hate U Give from the New York Times…
Blue Eyes, Brown Skin: Remembering Toni Morrison
It was my sophomore year of high school. We were in the middle of a unit on African-American literature, which was taught by a nice…
Sharks That Glow
I admit that part of me still feels a thrill of terror when seeing the trademark fin. Perhaps it’s seeing a commercial of the Jaws ride as…
Diving Into Nostalgia
The rain came down hard, right when I was about to leave my day job for the gym. There was a new exercise class that…