For most of this year, my wife, our baby daughter Eowyn, and I were on a cross country road trip while I worked remote. While we knew...

Terry Brooks is not a bad writer. Let's get that out of the way right from the get-go. Yes, he should probably still be paying some kind...

A review on the latest Marvel podcast through 6 episodes. As I've previously written, I really enjoyed some of the Stitcher/ Marvel...

Every once in a while you come across a piece of writing or art that feels like it was created just for you. For me, Boom Town was that...

The Top 20 Books: A Meta-Analysis/ Ranking I came to Stephen King pretty late in my reading life. As someone who got an MFA and has...

In The Pioneers, McCullough, perhaps best known for his books John Adams and 1776, traces the lives of several of the early settlers of...

One of the interesting things about getting a little older (and, yes I understand that depending on your perspective, thirty-nine is not...

It's been a good bit since I've posted here. Partly work has been extremely busy, but mostly it's that having a kid is an insane amount...

30 covers from across thousands of X-books I recently started a new job tangentially related to comics and as a result have been...

Years ago, someone gave my wife a copy of The Lord of the Rings, but she only got started reading it in earnest a few months ago. I...

The last three or four weeks, I've consistently read articles talking about how bored people are given all the time they have cooped up...

Stitcher's 3rd Marvel collab illustrates the strengths and drawbacks of the podcast medium. Between November of last year and the end of...

This oddly structured book reminded me of my own oddly structured book. Is Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry--which is marketed as a novel on its...

Similar to the last book I reviewed (George RR Martin's Fire & Blood), Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is a difficult book to...

I don't know if Fire & Blood was good, but without a doubt, it was impressive. George RR Martin's Fire & Blood is a hard book to...

11 reviews of one paragraph or less. I made it a goal this year to write and post reviews for every book I read this year. Well... it's...

A few days ago I was clicking around on Goodreads when I came upon a list of anticipated literary fiction for 2019. Whereas virtually...

In "Slow Pop," one of the "stories" in Klosterman's new collection entitled Raised in Captivity, an unnamed narrator tells us: I want to...

My story, "Holes," which I actually wrote probably ten years ago or so, was just published in the Medium publication, P.S. I Love You, a...

I'm still trying to catch up on my goal of writing at least a short review for every book I read in 2019. As such, I thought I could pair...