Becca Jane Approximately

“Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain, because...”
— Imagine some sort of wolf-pack...

Mar 3rd

Where Does It End?

Options for the Next Few Years: Law school Americorps (City Year in Seattle or summer in...

Feb 28th

Unfashionable

There is nothing like a book about a group of modern women in their mid-40s who don’t call...

Feb 22nd

Sudden Memory, Why I Could Never Live on...

A girl I once knew once had a thing with a guy who, besides being sardonically surprised that I knew...

Feb 20th

We are slacking

Which don’t we have? I suppose people don’t hibernate but, Extensive personality...

Feb 20th

Re: The Gwyneth Problem

Feb 19th

The Glorious Finale of John Updike Week!

“Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to...

Feb 13th

John Updike Week: Day 5, Philip Roth

Philip Roth is one of those writers whose reputation is giant, and thus whose work seems like it...

Feb 5th

John Updike Week: Day 4, Meg Wolitzer

I know, WTF? Meg Wolitzer! She’s not even a guy! Whatever, she wrote a book about being the...

Feb 5th

John Updike Week: Day 3, John Irving

I have begun to doubt the…efficacy? Purpose?…of JUW, as I have not in point of fact ever...

Feb 4th

John Updike Week: Day 2, Richard Yates

Thank God for moving pictures, without which I may never have learned of Richard Yates,...

Feb 2nd