Rachel Wagner is a writer from New Jersey, currently living in Newark with her son. Her blog and more of her published writing can be found at rachel-wagner.com
During undergrad, I took a summer course on American fiction and film. We read three novels then watched the movies ...
On struggling with a book hangover--the inability to move on, the grieving for characters whose stories have ended. So, how do you cope?
I care about the shape of books. I don’t have the attention span for ebooks or audiobooks. I wish I ...
Some of your favorite nonfiction might've started as a blog. Here are a few examples that influenced one reader's decision to start her own blog.
"But it’s also made me start being like, either I want to give that person the book or I’m keeping that shit." On the books we've lent and lost.
Pregnancy can be a time of total information overload, most of which is contradictory or not helpful. Here are a few books to read when you're expecting that are actually helpful!
A look at where you can read contemporary prison writing.
Looking for books to fulfill 2018 Read Harder Challenge task #5: books set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)? Peruse these titles.
Many organizations provide books to people in prison--we've rounded-up a few of their Amazon wish lists.
A reader who paid her library $40 for Rupi Kaur's MILK AND HONEY has some thoughts about overdue books and library tropes in comedy.