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In June of 2016 my wife, Jen, and I took our fourteen-month-old daughter, Oona, to the Nantucket Film Festival.

The New One by Mike Birbiglia

My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers

Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter

Hey Rube by Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Nickle Brickle'Bee by Sterling Nixon

Cold Storage by David Koepp

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The Mark of Zorro by Johnson McCulley

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber

The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

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The New One – 3/5 Stars This is the second Mike Birbiglia book I’ve read, after Sleepwalk with Me, and it’s good in the ways that comedians’ books are good and bad in the way that comedians’ books are bad (though this is a general issue with the form more than this specific book). Mike Birbiglia’s career is interesting in part because of the way he clearly got taken up by “Big Storytelling” around 2009 or so, and the opportunities to write movies that came […]

Home or on the road

Home Body by Rupi Kaur

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I like poetry, but not all poetry. I prefer contemporary to classic. I like poems that are easy to understand, ones that are straight forward and one does not need to swim through “64 thousand-dollar words” to find the meaning of the poem. Home Body (the third collection of poetry Rupi Kaur) hits all the marks that I like. There are contemporary themes and writing style, straight forwardness and adult language, but it is not “sugary, literary, aren’t-I-smart-I-use-big-words” content. The themes of the poems you […]

Small poetry book; big punch

Crown Nobel by Bianca Phipps

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Maybe Crown Nobel was too short. Or maybe I was not the right reader for Bianca Phipps’ poetry collection. As there was something about this that was off for me. I knew what they were saying, but sometimes I was not sure what the theme of the poem was. It felt at times that the language was abstract. Or there were pieces missing in the story. However, it was an experience that I am glad I took. Phipps deals with serious subjects. But despite those […]

“It is cause for celebration whenever anyone is, to the best of their ability, making their own choices free from pressure—and also working to change the social and political structures that will let everyone else have that same sexual freedom, and freedom of other kinds, too.”

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society & the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

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Quick review (ha! possible for me?) for a book that’s been holding up my review queue. This was an excellent book about what it means to be asexual, and how we think about sexuality in general. The best thing about it isn’t the way it explains asexuality, or the ace identity (which is extremely varied! as is all sexuality and forms of identity) but the way that it takes that premise and then opens it further. Chen posits that by acknowledging asexuality and striving to […]

The Bearmuda Triangle

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

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Something this dire – a town of people so opposed to paying taxes that they become a country-wide hotspot for bear attacks – should not be this funny. Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling carefully walks the line between Bill Bryson and a VICE documentarian while spinning this wild story of a Free Town and the beasts- man and animal alike, within. This collection of people, carefully and deliberately documented by Hongoltz-Hetling, shoot themselves in the foot so many times and with such ferocity that it is amazing the […]



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