Invisible Man–On the Occasion that Your Mother Takes Up Reading Harder

Dear Lily June, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is ostensibly a novel about (forgive the heresy of the paraphrase here) a black man who… Read more Invisible Man–On the Occasion that Your Mother Takes Up Reading Harder

The Influentials, Part 2: Adulthood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Later On

Dear Lily June, Oscar Wilde once famously quipped, “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines… Read more The Influentials, Part 2: Adulthood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Later On

The Influentials, Part 1: Childhood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Early On

Dear Lily June, It was in graduate school, when assigned to write six-word autobiographies, that one of my peers came… Read more The Influentials, Part 1: Childhood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Early On

Biting Off More than I Could Ever Chew–In Which I Attempt to Defend Poetry

Dear Lily June, You were born to two poets. This means a number of things about your life: That you… Read more Biting Off More than I Could Ever Chew–In Which I Attempt to Defend Poetry