A new social media invention “Own Your Unconscious” that allows people not only to access their deep memories, but also to upload to the Collective Unconscious in exchange for access to everyone else’s. In The Candy House the characters…

When my father headed off to war in the Pacific theater in 1940, he stood a greater chance of dying from malaria than from enemy action. DDT came to the rescue. In How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT, Elena Co…

A book with almost 20,000 reviews on goodreads certainly doesn’t need another one, but here it is anyway. A Visit from the Goon Squad is written as a collection of short stories. Together the stories cover around 40 years in the lives o…

There are already over five hundred reviews of Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life on Goodreads, and I’m not sure the world needs another one. I’ll just say that I loved it. As a wannabe writer it gave me hope as m…

Hannah Lee Jones is a friend and I’m reviewing an advance review copy of When I Was the Wind. I am not typically a reader of poetry, and was not familiar with the author’s poems before reading this book. I found the work evocative and mo…