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.
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.
These short story collections are irresistible.
Family, healing, and finding your voices are among the biggest lessons one reader found in thirty memoirs this year.
Give your fall TBR a boost of inspiration with these powerful nonfiction books covering everything from disability to cultural criticism and more.
A reader of Irish heritage gets acquainted with the country through two books set against farms in Ireland.