We Ride Upon Sticks, Quan Barry

I read this with a group of women who mostly didn’t like it that much, but I actually quite enjoyed it, much more so than I’d expected. It’s a story about a girl’s field hockey team that turns to witchcraft to improve their game. Unsurprisingly, it’s more about the relationships between the characters and theContinueContinue reading “We Ride Upon Sticks, Quan Barry”

On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays, Emily Ogden

Another short one, but better than nothing, maybe? There’s a lot of debate these days about the difference between essay, auto-theory, various experimental modes, etc — I would put these squarely in the essay category, in the best version of the form: a text that draws on personal experience (and some literary readings) to meditateContinueContinue reading “On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays, Emily Ogden”