Reading Material: Three Days at Getaway Beaver Creek

If you’re on Instagram, chances are you’ve heard of Getaway. Basically a really aesthetic glamping experience, Getaway offers an escape from busy city life (or, just life) in the form of a tiny house in the great outdoors, with all the modern essentials of our everyday lives but with cool features to emphasize Escape like […]

The Story of a New Name // Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante’s The Story of a New Name is the second book in her Neapolitan Novels quartet. Unlike the first novel, My Brilliant Friend, which follows its main characters through childhood and adolescence, The Story of a New Name recounts their experiences in early adulthood. It is a necessary continuation of Elena and Lila’s story, […]

The Proposal // Jasmine Guillory

You know that feeling when you watch a bunch of “serious” films in a row, ones with heavy themes and dramatic conflicts, and you just want to watch a light, silly rom-com to cleanse your palate? The Proposal is that palate-cleanser in book form. I’ve been reading a lot of no-joke fiction lately, books like […]

My Brilliant Friend // Elena Ferrante

I can finally say I’ve taken part in Ferrante Fever! I gulped up My Brilliant Friend, the first of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels quartet, faster than water during the July heat wave. Ferrante’s work is reminiscent of Jane Austen, with complex family drama, seriously complicated relationships, and too many characters to keep track of, but […]

The Nickel Boys // Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead’s work–from his debut The Institutionist to his Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad (2016)–seems to evoke a number of descriptors: powerful, for one, moving and emotional, for another. The Nickel Boys meets this same criteria and beyond. Though it was my first experience with Whitehead, The Nickel Boys will certainly not […]

The Marriage Plot // Jeffrey Eugenides

The Marriage Plot took me ages to get through, and didn’t quite seem worth it in the end. Here, Eugenides tells the story of three Brown seniors, Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell and their intertwined love lives as they graduate and move on into the real world. After a sex-charged relationship senior year, Madeleine and Mitchell […]

The Girls // Emma Cline

Emma Cline’s debut novel The Girls was the “it” book of summer 2016, and, yes, it did take me three years to finally pick it up. Moody and dramatic, very much like the first season of True Detective, it follows fourteen year-old Evie Boyd’s coming-of-age as she is drawn into a dangerous, Manson-esque cult. Told […]