Essays
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Mini Reviews: shipwrecks, essays about reading, and tales of the beauty industry
A round up of recent reads, in the form of some mini reviews. Let’s go! The Wager by David Grann reconstructs the story of a harrowing shipwreck in the 1700s and the gruesome aftermath of loss, survival, and struggle as the men tried to make their way back to England. I read this one for Continue reading
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The White Album by Joan Didion
“Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.” (“In the Islands”) Published in 1979, The White Album is a collection of Didion’s essays that were previously included in magazines. These essays span a myriad of topics, from Didion’s thoughts on California, Hollywood, and Hawaii to the Continue reading
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