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When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she had kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved – plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naivete, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Read more

If you could take a magic potion and become beautiful, really and truly beautiful, would you do it? Read more

My thought’s on Paul La Farge’s novel The Night Ocean – a fictional investigation of the real horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Read more

On the vicious cycle of being a reader: “This is every reader’s catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven’t read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing.” Read more

My thoughts on Sarah Domet’s debut novel about four girls named Guinevere, all of whom come to The Sisters of the Supreme Adoration with a heartbreaking story and find in each other confidants, teachers, and family. Read more

“In a short time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically, and not just because of technology.” My thoughts on Aziz Ansari’s compelling study of love in the 21st century. Read more