Gretchen Lida is an essayist and an equestrian. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Brevity, The Rumpus, The Washington Independent Review of Books, and many others. She teaches composition in Illinois, lives in Wisconsin, sometimes lives on Nantucket Island and is still a Colorado Native.
It's been challenging to be distanced from bookish peers, but this reader shares what's been gained from virtual literary events.
How one reader keenly felt a pivotal moment in Helen MacDonald's recent book Vesper Flights.
A reader recounts the joy of taking a break from online time to read paper ARCs in taking time to mourn the little things lost to pandemic for now.
On books set in the rural middle of America and the powerful insights from AMERICAN HARVEST.
A reader and teacher on the educational philosophy she calls the Young Goodman Brown effect, named after the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
How one writer found Anthony Bourdain's writing influential in understanding their own writing.
One reader takes a trip through their neighborhood of East Rogers Park in Chicago and explores the Little Free Libraries.
Like its terrain, Colorado's history is ragged and complicated. Get to know the U.S. state through these 2019 books.
A reader looks back at a tough year in reading, the books left unfinished, and a title that turned out to be the right book at the right time.