At McSweeney’s, Shakespearean letters to Santa.
Santa, my Liege
The Housewife Novel
Recommended Reading: On the history of literature about housewives, from Madame Bovary to Dept. of Speculation.
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Invisible Together
"It was a remarkable scene, to witness young people collectively shatter one another’s sense of social isolation." Clint Smith for The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog about teaching Invisible Man to a high school class full of undocumented immigrants.
Finding Frances
Recommended Reading: Laura Van Prooyen's poem at The Missouri Review “Location: Frances.” "When I say Frances, I mean a woman. I mean/a place. The dead cling to the land."
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