The 'Kaui Hart Hemmings' Tag Archive

Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word Kaui Hart Hemmings. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

December 21st, 2008

The 10 Best Books I read in 2008

1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken:This was the best book I read all year. No hemming, no hawing, no second guessing — the best. McCracken’s memoir about giving birth to a stillborn child and all that follows is heartbreaking, darkly funny, and something everyone on the planet should [...]

February 2nd, 2008

The second book of 2008 to make me cry

Despite the way it appears, I don’t often cry while reading. In fact before I read Atonement, I could only think of two other books that made me cry. And now, here I am two months into 2008 and I’ve already cried twice while reading. You might think it’s because I’ve gone soft. But you’d [...]

January 5th, 2005

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004

Somewhere in the back of my mind I have decided that Best American Nonrequired Reading is somehow the ugly little sister of Best American Short Stories. In this back place of my mind, the stories in Nonrequired were almost, but not quite good enough for Best American. Maybe it’s because in writing class we always [...]