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August 26, 2023

How Gloria Mark Broke My Heart

David Foster Wallace's essay "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart" inspired the title for my playful review of Gloria Mark's Attention Span. Austin broke Wallace's jones for the sports memoir genre, and I'm ready to throw in the towel on these self-help-in-a-digital-age books, too.

Tom Sandoval crying as Lisa Vanderpump looks sad.

Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval, crying into his money.


Human connection amidst modern distractions is on my mind and in my recent writing: a review of Generations and how Gen Z is adrift and lonely, a meditation on Tom Sandoval and the price of a life sacrificed to reality TV, and finally an inside baseball article I contributed to about hosting cocktail parties.

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