Year: 2023
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A Novel for Our Times: Rune Christiansen's The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life
In the last three years we’ve witnessed books emerge from the pandemic, their writers grappling with a unique universal experience through language and literature. Zadie Smith’s Intimations is a slim but immediate account of the early days of the pandemic and of a life altered by lockdown, while Deborah Levy’s most recent novel August Blue sees the…
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Take Two: Jen Sookfong Lee's Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
Jen Sookfong Lee and I had a crush on the same type of boy growing up. The creative, sensitive, poetry-reading boy who was perfectly captured in the Dead Poets Society. While it seems like a harmless crush, one sparked by fictional characters, it forms a ‘type’ that is often non-existent. From my own experience, this…
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2022 Reading Journal
“If the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such excuse is needed. It is true that we get nothing whatsoever except pleasure from reading; it is true that the wisest of…
Sydney K Erickson 