After reading Tony Tulathimutte’s short story collection Rejection I knew that I had found a new favorite contemporary author. And picking up his novel, Private Citizens, next, did not disappoint.
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As an animal rights activist who is also a biology student, little has weighed on me more heavily in my day-to-day life than the ubiquity of biomedical animal testing.
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The first half of December was dominated by finals, but, as I realized, it’s the last December of my life (most likely) that I will be in that situation.
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It’s been a while since I’ve written a book recommendation list post, but recently, as I found myself perusing the Internet for suggestions on media to replace the void left by the show I had recently finished watching (rather than going straight to watching it again, as I was fairly tempted to do) I was reminded of how useful, and fun to write, these types of posts are.
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Wouldn’t we be better off without all this gosh darn technology?
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I haven’t done one of these in years.
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“If I smoked cigarettes, I would sit at a train station with this book and light up.” – Me when I was 19 and thought smoking looked super cool, maybe in part due to this book’s iconic cover, but that’s a conversation for another day.
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It turns out there’s a drawback to having what is functionally an online journal for six years, even if you mostly just write about books.
“Little Red Barns is a groundbreaking investigation of factory farms and the unprecedented measures being taken to hide their impact — on animals, public health, and the environment — from the public.”
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I listened to this book while on a bus to New York City (at least until Spotify informed me I ran out of free audiobook listening hours, which was interesting since I literally pay that service $10 a month, but I digress). Fortunately I was able to finish it using the services of the good old-fashioned library.
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“Do you know what happened already?
Did you know her?
Did you see it on the internet?
Did you listen to a podcast?
Did the hosts make jokes?
Did you see the pictures of the body?
Did you look for them?”
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I knew this book would be a difficult read, but I did not expect it to be quite as good as it was.
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Picture a bunch of rich people with too much time on their hands, too many drugs at their disposal and a severe lack of empathy.
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It is rather rare for me to actually watch a show while it is still riding the wave of popularity and acclaim.
This is a tough one. Ottessa Moshfegh is one of my favorite writers; she always finds a way to create an atmosphere of intense dread and transfixing disgust in the worlds she creates.
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An over-the-top satire on Wall Street culture, rife with brand name obsessions, spectacular misogyny and, of course, murder.
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Ah, existentialism. The word conjures images of French cafes, cigarettes and black and white photos, but what is it really?
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Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead is a beautifully-written and philosophically intriguing novel with strong animal rights undertones.
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A Scanner Darkly is both a novel about an intriguing sci-fi world and a disturbing exploration of substance abuse.
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I long to write essays like Joan Didion
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Frappes and Fiction 