• Two Novellas I've Read Recently and Why I Like Them

   · 30 Jan 2026 | Erika's Husband

  Pond - Claire-Louise Bennett (2015)

  

  Publisher Description: Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures...

• Went to a book club

   · 30 Jan 2026 | Erika's Husband

  This evening I went to Mesa for a book club. I found out about the event from the poetry workshop I went to a couple weeks ago. A nice woman named Molly said it would be a casual discussion, not around a specific book but about any book we had read and wanted to talk about. The theme for the...