Category: reading
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As I read Kathy Watson’s compelling memoir Last Morning at Nora’s Table, I found myself thinking about Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. Both books hinge on a shocking death, but Watson’s story is, for me, the more powerful. Watson starts the memoir in the kitchen of her first restaurant, then reveals in well-structured…
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I came upon author Richard Roper’s novel quite by accident at the library, checked it out, but didn’t commit to it right away. It’s like hovering at the door of an event you don’t quite get, but feel curious about. How much of my reading time do I want to give to a book about…
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I ordered this book on a whim and it spoke to me. When the amazing and insightful graphic artist/cartoonist Peter Dunlap Shohl pointed me to Brian Fies‘s work on Facebook, I got intrigued and began following him. I have no previous experience with graphic memoir but as a longtime journalist I know that the best…
