The other day I was at my desk at my internship. I love that job. (Yeah, I call it a job even though they’re not paying me. I do real […]
Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction (ARC Review)
I love speculative fiction. In “Misery,” Stephen King does a lot more than the film version of the story offers. The movie is a great depiction of how scary unchecked mental […]
Vladimir Nabokov Reviews His Favorite Boba Place
Bubble tea, thrill of my afternoon, cooling of my tongue. My mouth, my mind. Bub-ble-tea: the bounce and blow of my lips taking a trip to the tilt of my […]
Ernest Hemingway Receives a Package from Amazon
The man came to the door. I hadn’t been out of bed yet, but I was awake. When I heard the bell, I lit the lamp and got dressed. He […]
2013 Retrospecticus
I started this off planning to only look back over the fall semester. One of the great things about being in school is that it cuts the year into manageable […]
Ender’s Game: the Good, the Bad, and the Boycott
When I was about 13, I read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. I was reading Asimov and Bradbury and I really loved sci-fi adventures. Unlike a lot of other […]
Teachers
The other day in my Chernin class, we were asked to talk about our favorite teachers. At the time, I mostly named professors I’ve had at Cal because the people […]
I Love Lucy: The New Series
I grew up on I Love Lucy. It was one of my favorite TV shows, and it still is. I watched it innocently, without understanding what it represented in American […]
What I learned from my first transcription job
I took a work-study job at Berkeley last year transcribing for a project in the Institute of Human development. I received recordings of classroom interaction with kids in the 10-12 […]
Gushing Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Passage by Justin Cronin. This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. A truly epic tale, on par with “The Stand,” and it’s hard […]