The Book Report
Ghosts Make Better Friends: A Book Report on 'Wait till Helen Comes'
There often comes a moment in a young girl’s life—somewhere between the time when you start making your Barbies bone each other and the time when you start holding a furious vigil over your vulva looking for your first pubes—when things take a turn for...
The Adorable, Cute, and Racist Parties of Dame Curtsey
In 1912, Ellye Howell Glover, commonly known as Dame Curtsey, was an entertaining guru. As we approach Super Bowl Sunday, when households across our great country will receive guests bearing gifts of seven-layer dip, I give you Dame Curtsey’s Party...
In the Context of Ghosts: A Book Report on 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens
Marley was dead: to begin with, but he shows up anyway as a ghost and tells Scrooge, YO BRO QUIT BEING A DICK OR YOUR LIFE WILL GET STUPID SHITTY AND YOU WILL DIE.
Strunk and White's 'The Elements of Style': Verbing Some Guy Named Peter
The plot is that one day Strunk said, OK, let’s give a lot of examples about our life. White thought this was a pretty great plan.
This Is Emotions: 'Super Sad True Love Story' by Gary Shteyngart
Very premium literary masterwork Super Sad True Love Story begins in Italy, a beautiful place I have never seen, which is good way to start novel because it says, "Reader, I have seen beautiful things and now I will tell you about them."
If You Haven't Read 'Frankenstein,' Just Watch 'Frankenhooker'
Prior to teaching Frankenstein, my knowledge of the plot was cobbled together from loosely interpreting Tim Burton films, the moment from the 1931 film adaptation when Dr. Frankenstein screams, “It’s alive! It’s alive!,” and a 1998 Twix...
'Macbeth': In the Context of Ghosts
OK so there is this guy named DUNCAN and he is king of all the Scots. And OK so MACBETH is the main guy here because he gets first billing. And then he and his best buddy BANQUO wander around the woods like a bunch of loud-ass drunk white dudes in...