(This post originally appeared on Persephone Magazine.) Though I admit to not being all that well-versed in “My Drunk Kitchen” the video series, I still wanted to see how Hannah Hart’s humor translated into book form. I might have aged out of some of this life advice, but her enthusiasm and love of puns still won me over. “[T]his book is about self-improvement and maybe it can improve itself as it goes along,” Hannah Hart writes in the introduction. “Has a cookbook ever been self-aware? […]
Cat puns? I’M IN.
Let’s see… Cats and puns illustrated by a musician? It’s like the Book Gods sensed a need in my life and amply provided. Perhaps best known as a member of noise rock bands Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard, David Yow is also an accomplished visual artist. While Copycat may be seen as less “serious” than some of his other work, there’s still a subtle complexity to these animals. “I love cats. Always have,” he says about the book. “I also love wordplay. I’m […]
“From chaos climb with many a sudden gleam, / London, one moment fallen and forgot.”
I loved Westwood, and it’s increasingly rare that I love books at first read. I generally rather enjoy Stella Gibbons’s work (and I reviewed The Matchmaker here) but apart from Cold Comfort Farm, which I adore unequivocally, I’ve found Gibbons’s novels to be pleasant rather than stimulating. Westwood (1946) manages to be both comforting and sparkling, a Victorian novel of morality and marriage with a Regency comedy of manners at its heart, and sprinkled with the fragments of a modernist tale of disconnection, dysfunctional marriage, […]
Word.
“Good for her! Not for me.” The above phrase first appears about a fifth of the way through Ms. Poehler’s excellent book. If you’re familiar with her “Smart Girls at the Party” project, it should come as no surprise that she offers up some pretty sweet life advice. I’m almost 35, and I don’t think I’ve seen that sentiment summed up so perfectly. I’m considering having it tattooed on my ass. Not literally. Well, not actively, anyway. Maybe someday. But for now it is tattoed […]