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On Reading in Public Places; or Why we Love to Love Albert Camus
One of my reading goals this year included reading one book per alphabet letter coordinating with an author’s last name (does that even make sense?). For example, Around the World in 80 Days by…
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My Week in the Backcountry
Circa July 2025, I headed up to Rocky Mountain National Park on a volunteer position to pick invasive Canada Thistle headed by a Park Ranger in the required accoutrement of First Tactical pants and…
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Holden, Rabbit, Scarlett: What is this, a Whore House?
We’ve all heard of Holden Caulfield, J.D. Salinger, and the so-called-genius of Catcher in the Rye. Well, Audience, I present to you: Rabbit, Run by John Updike. The more grown-up version of the tireless…
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What Lies Did Kazuo Ishiguro Tell Us Now?
I’ve recently been introduced to the wonderful world of Kazuo Ishiguro. And as someone who heavily dislikes dystopian, sci-fi JUNK, I can confidently say, Ishiguro writes everything but that. Can we even call Never…
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McCarthyism, but Not in That Way
On my shelves sits four novels by Cormac McCarthy: Suttree, The Road, No Country for Old Men, and Blood Meridian. My first experience with McCarthy was The Road a number of years ago when…
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A Critique of my Own Kin
I am not on the hunt for my new favorite book. I am currently reading three books (as is my usual routine–one for each room, each mood, time of day, etc.). And it is…
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On Finding Value Outside of Utility
I am currently in the early pages of Simon Winchester’s The Map that Changed the World which will be my second work from him–the first being The Professor and the Madman outlining the birth…
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Anthony Doerr and the Science of Enjoyment
The same silver-haired English teacher I had in my youth who succinctly told me I suck at reading also had an affinity for music. Bands that I’d never heard of (e.g. Genesis) being not…
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The middle of March, At the Beginning of April
I am drawn to book clubs that I have the intention of going to but have failed to follow through on nearly every single occasion. From the local bookstore hosting book clubs for everything…
The Academy
Wolf Den Books 