Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. Jonathan Tepper’s Shooting Up is a memoir of Tepper’s boyhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. Tepper’s parents were American missionaries who traveled to Spain in the 1980s and founded a small drug rehabilitation community that eventually expanded and […]
A few months ago, my father asked me if I’d heard of an author named Ocean Vuong. When I replied that I hadn’t, he said, with a slow smile and a twinkle in his eye: “I have discovered…beauty.” I knew immediately that I would need to investigate, both because I’d been hankering for some good […]
“Grandmother was rigorous and unswerving. It was her belief in the value of effort itself that prevented her from buying a television set. She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to be a great waste of time––a childish self-indulgence, […]