This particular journey has not been as treacherous nor as long as others in this post, but it did involve some self-discovery, heartbreak, hope, and despair.
It started on a couch (one of my favorite places in the world) as I was watching the Colbert Report on June 18th. Junot Diaz was promoting his Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Now, I try and be an independent thinker, but I am just as susceptible to the NYT bestseller, highbrow literature, “it” book marketing tools as everybody else. So, I thought to myself, I’ll have to pick that up next time I’m in a bookstore… Continue reading “The Brief Wondrous Vacation of Matt Eilar”
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