Photo by Ian Barsby  on Unsplash I finally got around (read: scheduled time) to reading Zadie Smith's excellent essay titled The Art of the Impersonal Essay . While I don't necessarily connect to her fiction, I think she's a very clear thinker, and I admire that. I've taken notes. I don't think I was taught how to write an essay at school, and in university, I mostly learned how to write academic papers, which aren't exactly the same. I loved the permission she gave writers t

Read this on galpod.com. I was going to write a "This is what 42 looks like" post, but I got bored writing about myself. So instead I...

Read this on galpod.com. I've read this book for an online book club that meets in September. It's a fiction novel about what would have...