My debut in the TLS is a brief review of Jeannie Vanasco’s heart-wrenching Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl.
Memoir
My 2019 Top Ten List
We did a bunch of year-end lists at Crime Reads (I particularly did the psychological thrillers) but I thought maybe I’d do a more inclusive year-end list, which reflects what I actually read, These are in no particular order, though I’d make a special plea for Snyder’s book, which I don’t feel like it got the publicity it deserves: Continue reading
Naben Ruthnum/Nathan Ripley on Crime and Curry
Profiling Nathan Ripley/Naben Ruthnum for Crime Reads was a lot of fun.
Addiction Books: 17 Modern Classics
I made a list of my favorite books about addiction for Crime Reads.
The New Sameness of Leslie Jamison’s Addiction Memoir
For JSTOR Daily, I wrote a critique of addiction memoirs featuring Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath.
