fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
Like any self-respecting Nerdfighter who loves to read and is privileged enough to have disposable income, I signed up for a physical subscription to the Life's Library Book Club as soon as I learned about it. (For the uninitiated to whom the preceding sentence made precisely zero sense, a brief primer: Nerdfighters are, among other [...]
Roughly halfway through Hank Green's debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, protagonist April May steps back from her story of alien statues, cable news blowhards and contagious dreams to evaluate and identify the varying tiers of celebrity. It's an instructive moment that allows Green to examine his own position in the hierarchy of the famous [...]
I once told a friend that I didn't have any guilty pleasures because I don't understand feeling guilty about whatever art you happen to enjoy. This remains true. However, as we've seen, sometimes this lack of guilt/shame means that I end up investing in works for which I am way, way outside of the target [...]
I'm the kind of obsessive fool who doesn't do very well with partial experiences. I have a hard time enjoying a TV show unless I get to start at the beginning, if I start a book I need to finish it, and if I dive into some kind of series, I've got to consume the whole [...]
