by crissly | Oct 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
“I listen to a lot of books on audio. It works for me. But certain more literary friends of mine say it doesn’t quite count as reading. Part of me wants to read more, but I find it much easier to listen. What do you think? Should I care?”—Easy ListeningDear Easy,I... 
by crissly | Sep 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
When Rachel Aviv was six years old, she stopped eating. Shortly after, she was hospitalized with anorexia. Her doctors were flummoxed. They’d never seen a child so young develop the eating disorder, yet there she was. Was it a response to her parents’ divorce? Diet... 
by crissly | Jun 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
There was once an orangutan named Ken Allen at the San Diego Zoo who was notorious for carrying out complex escape plans. He found every nut and bolt in his cage and unscrewed them; in his open enclosure he threw rocks and feces at visitors. On one occasion, he... 
by crissly | Apr 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 2014, Emily St. John Mandel published her fourth novel, Station Eleven. It went on to be the kind of breakout critical and commercial hit that transforms a writer’s life. A story about the survivors of a fictional flu pandemic, it gained new relevancy in 2020—the... 
by crissly | Apr 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Perhaps it’s something in the air, but right now it seems as though half the new books on shelves deal with the climate crisis in some way. The environment is central to at least three of the 15 books on WIRED’s latest recommendations for readers. But that’s just the... 