kjoannerixonOct 18, 20211 minFour Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban AgeI've been on a massive road trip and listened to quite a few books on audio (and also did a lot of reading while camping in remote...
kjoannerixonSep 19, 20211 minBraiding SweetgrassI found BRAIDING SWEETGRASS difficult to get through, and only in part because the global pandemic has melted my brain. I think...
kjoannerixonSep 10, 20212 minNew and Selected Poems, Volume OneI don't usually love career-spanning surveys of a poet's entire body of work; I prefer shorter, more manageable books with a little more...
kjoannerixonSep 10, 20212 minRose DaughterAh, so many people think this is McKinley's worst book--and maybe it has less mass appeal than, say, SUNSHINE, or THE BLUE SWORD--but...
kjoannerixonSep 6, 20212 minTo Kill a MockingbirdUnlike a huge percentage of Americans my age, I never read this book in school. I read widely outside of school, of course, including in...
kjoannerixonAug 30, 20211 minMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male AmericaMEDIOCRE is a wide-ranging overview of massive cultural forces over centuries of time. Because of this, it's perhaps inevitable that it...
kjoannerixonAug 29, 20212 minDeaf RepublicI found DEAF REPUBLIC utterly fascinating. I've been somewhat familiar with Kaminsky for a while--his poems often appear on poetry...