Ari Schneider – Shaded by Stone
Climbing mountains is Ari Schneider’s passion. For some reason, rock climbing didn’t make it between businessman and engineering on the list of available jobs at his university’s career fair. For… Read more »
Tag: coming of age
Jennie Withers – A Backpack, a Eurorail Pass, and Some Serious Baggage
In July 2018 Jennie Withers released her nonfiction memoir, A Backpack, a Eurorail Pass, and Some Serious Baggage. Part travelogue, part coming of age, part an escape from the conservative… Read more »
Tatiana de Rosnay – De familiereünie
De alweer vijfde roman van Tatiana de Rosnay die ik gelezen heb, speelt zich voornamelijk af in een door een overstroming van de Seine geteisterd Parijs, waar de familie Malegarde… Read more »
Theodor Kallifatides – Another Life: On Memory, Language, Love, and the Passage of Time
Theodor Kallifatides, a Greek immigrant who became a top-notch writer in Sweden suffers from a writer’s block. “Nobody should write after the age of seventy-five,” a friend recommends. Should you really… Read more »
Jessica Wilbanks – When I Spoke in Tongues
Jessica Wilbanks’ family life was drenched in the Pentecostal substream of Christianity when she grew up, recognizable from my own teenage and young adult years. Revival meetings, altar calls, speaking… Read more »