millenial – Cannonball Read 17

A Tolentino Gateway Drug

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

November 12, 2020 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

My boss bought me Trick Mirror, a collection of nine essays by The New Yorker, Jezebel, and The Hairpin writer Jia Tolentino, for my birthday this year. As usual, she’s gifted me something meaty to absorb that suits my tastes well. The collection of essays in Trick Mirror includes a range of topics spanning marriage, the 2016 election and Trump presidency, life as a teen reality tv ‘star’, Big Tech, and religion. But it’s not just a bunch of millennial naval-gazing reflection. This is a well-researched, sourced, […]

Cleveland’s Steel Mill is a Great Place To Figure Your S*** Out

Rust by Eliese Colette Goldbach

January 21, 2020 by Rachel 2 Comments

Rust is a memoir of an ordinary person, but a person who has faced incredible personal challenges. It is the true story of the author, who was struggling in her post-graduate life to find her path in the world. Eliese finds herself back in her hometown of Cleveland, a place she never thought she would end up in as an adult. She rode out the Great Recession by enrolling in graduate school only to graduate and be faced with a pile of student loan debt. […]

Deliverance

Severance by Ling Ma

May 19, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

Severance meanders; take that for what it is and don’t expect more from it and it becomes a valuable exploration of memory in contrast to the present. It’s for people who live in cities and love walking them, both familiar and unfamiliar parts. It’s for people who work because they need to do something, anything, nevermind, what it actually is. It’s for immigrants and people who feel trapped between more than one place, who have matured over states and provinces and cities and across lines. […]

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