“Here is how I have felt, as me: as a relatively young person who is perceived as white, who is naturally sociable, who is intelligent and well-spoken, who was taught well and as a result loves learning things, who is able to lift objects up to fifty pounds repeatedly. And many times, with all that going for me, I still saw no hope. I cannot begin to imagine how much harder it is for someone who faces more discrimination than I have or grew up […]
An Architect and a Serial Killer During a Fair
This book is a work of creative non fiction that re-tells the overlapping stories of the architects of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the serial killer Dr Henry Holmes. The book opens with one of the last surviving architects, Daniel Burnham, reflecting on his life and his friends as he travels on the ship Olympic towards Europe April 14, 1912 (the significance of the date becomes obvious later on). The rest of the story is told as a flashback, beginning with Chicago’s bid to […]
Spoiler: She dies at the end.
“It is not difficult to understand why Caesar became history, Cleopatra a legend.” I heard of this book thanks to The Daily Show. I love bios about royal women and the author is obviously super-smart. So I went out and bought the book, and I promptly left it unread for a couple of years. (That’s a bad habit of mine.) The whole kerfuffle over Sony’s film adaptation brought it back to my attention. Stacy Schiff gleefully debunks everything you thought you knew about Cleopatra. No, she wasn’t Egyptian. Not only was she Greek, she came from the same Macedonian stock […]
So much better than the film
When Susanna Kaysen was 18, she went to see a new psychiatrist for a conversation after what appears to have been a suicide attempt. She swallowed a large amount of sleeping pills, then regretted her decision and wandered out into the street to get help. The psychiatrist claimed to have spoken to and evaluated Ms. Kaysen for more than three hours, Ms. Kaysen herself claims the meeting was barely half an hour. The end result was nonetheless that she ended up committed to McLean Hospital, […]
Continuing my Virginia Woolf love
I am a huge nerd for anything related to Virginia Woolf. Ever since I read Mrs. Dalloway for a modern lit seminar and then took a Virginia Woolf seminar as an undergrad, I’ve been hooked (fun sidenote: my professor called us the Woolf Pack. It was awesome). I read The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years, Orlando, and her play Freshwater for that class (The Chancellor bought me Between the Acts a […]
Coming to America
“Yo, there’s this new comedian Eddie. My parents don’t like him because he swears a lot. But you should hear the shit he says! Racism, janky food, fucking white people, he takes ‘em on. He keeps it mad real. He’s funny as shit ’cause he’s been through some shit! And he’s about to BLOW. UP. He does stand-up, television- he’s everywhere!” “I heard of him. Eddie Murphy is the man!” “That dude who is Donkey from Shrek?! Naw, I’m talking about a real comedian. Eddie HUANG, man.” […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 479
- 480
- 481
- 482
- 483
- …
- 515
- Next Page »