it chooses you, miranda july
this started out meanderingly enough and i had read the first chapter somewhere on the internet. interviews with random people from the pennysaver, combined with the struggle of creating and making a movie.. it all came together in the end very poignantly.
7/10
pulphead, john jeremiah sullivan
i love a few types of longform essays and one of them appears to be the john jeremiah sullivan type. i read every single one of these investigative pieces with interest and with interest in looking up their subjects more. separately they are all fantastic essays but together the common factor of the american south came through.. very interesting.
8.5/10
the inevitable: contemporary writers confront death, ed david shields and bradford morrow
well as you might surmise from the title this quickly became a somewhat morbid read. which i don't usually shy away from but when everyone is writing a form of non-fiction then it quickly becomes quite melancholy. there was a whole range of writings and themes, though some were similar in describing relatives or spouses who had passed away recently. ultimately it became a showcase of the very different types of writing that can form around a common theme.
6.5/10
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