READ ALL ABOUT IT
Since 2012, I’ve been writing about books. And the act of reading. And the importance of story and narrative. But, mostly, the underlying theme of all I write is how taking a moment to stop and digest some longform text — instead of scrolling, instead of watching a video, instead of multitasking — can be one of the most grounding things we can do for ourselves. Here’s the one-stop online home for all this writing.
You can read more about me and my work by moseying over here. Want to peruse periodic “essay drops” — excerpts from my work-in-progress essay collection about Homesickness? Here ya go.
Baghdad Book Fair
Here’s an article from a December issue of The Boston Sunday Globe. (Originally printed in the NYT.) Despite all the headlines that catch our eye (and that, well, appear in newspapers like the one I read this in), “There is a big gap between the people in the street and political elite…People in the street are not that interested in what happens in politics,” according to Maysoon al-Demluji, a former deputy minister of culture. That might be a bit of an overstatement, but she’s speaking at the Baghdad International Book Fair; her point is that this is the kind of place where “real life” in Iraq happens.
