review by Meredith McKinnie “I wanted to see who I was, without using another person’s love for me as a measurement of my value.” When I think of Jessica Simpson, I first think of the MTV show Newlyweds, in which she and then-husband Nick Lachey documented their first year of marriage, only to divorc...
review by Meredith McKinnie “Every time I remember that my mother is dead, it feels like I’m colliding with a wall that won’t give. There’s no escape, just a hard surface that I keep ramming over and over, a reminder of the immutable reality that I will never see her again.” Michelle Zauner’s meditat...
review by Meredith McKinnie “The conversations that help me see the world most clearly are generally not with researchers, policymakers, or so-called experts. They aren’t with the people journalists crassly call ‘newsmakers’ at all. They’re with artists – especially writers.” The essence of Sh...
