Category Archives: nonfiction

Review: Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden

Posted on May 27, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: It was a great love story, one for the ages. The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere. He wanted it, … Continue reading →

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Review: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Posted on April 1, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human. On Oct 25th, after … Continue reading →

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Review: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Posted on March 23, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: “Merge the house and the woman—watch the woman experience her own body as a haunted house, a place of sudden, inexplicable terrors—and you are reading the blazingly talented Carmen Maria Machado.”—Parul Sehgal, The New York … Continue reading →

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Review: Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V Dearborn

Posted on March 16, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals V. S. Pritchett called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal described her as … Continue reading →

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Review: Moving the Moon: A Night at the Acropolis Museum by Andrea Marcolongo

Posted on September 27, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From one of Europe’s most original and brilliant classicists, an inspiring and deeply personal reflection on loss, memory, and what we owe the past and others, inspired by a night spent in Athens’ Acropolis … Continue reading →

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Review: The Art of Running: Learning to Run Like a Greek by Andrea Marcolongo

Posted on April 27, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The inspiring story of how one of Europe’s most original and compelling classicist learned to run—and live—like a Greek  Much has changed since the day in 490 BCE when the indefatigable Athenian herald Philippides … Continue reading →

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Essay 002: Kurt Cobain

Posted on April 8, 2024 by ghostvillehero

This past week was the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain. Many people who were closer to him and/or more insightful than me have written many articles about him. This is only my experience this week. I pulled … Continue reading →

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Review: There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Posted on April 2, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a … Continue reading →

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Essay 001: Numbers

Posted on March 28, 2024 by ghostvillehero

I enjoy numbers in a casual way. My Garmin watch tells me that I average 9,761 steps every day and that my resting heart rate is 55 (I do know this heart rate is not completely accurate because it is … Continue reading →

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