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defining your annotation style

creating a goal list

What we're reading in 2025

what are your goals?

a gift guide for readers & homebodies

what do you notice?

what is literary analysis?

Series: becoming a close(r) reader

where do you read?

what is reading?

becoming a close(r) reader

when what you usually have are words

Happy Halloween!

halloween approaches!

on the forgotten Olive Moore

3 more lessons I learned in grad school

Shirley Jackson's haunted homes

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Reading "The Yellow Wall-Paper"

closely reading advice from a literature phd: a peek into the archives

6 lessons I learned during grad school

september summary

A deep dive into Passing

Parts 2 & 3 of Passing

it's cloud illusions

Part 1 of Passing

start Nella Larsen's Passing today

recent reads

a fall syllabus

5 reads for the end of summer

welcome to the club!

the return of Closely Reading

into a cocoon

The Age of Innocence: Chapter 34

*Fin*

june's monthly musings

The Age of Innocence: Chapters 29-33

Each time, you happen to me all over again

on selfhood

The Age of Innocence: Chapters 25-28

Talking chapters 22-28

oh, you

The Age of Innocence: Chapters 22-24

on the mis-uses of perfection

The Age of Innocence: Chapters 19-21

Diving into Book 2

a modern(ist) vampire

The Age of Innocence: Chapters 15-18

Let's talk the end of Book 1

a day at the art institute

The Age of Innocence: Chapters 10-14

Let's talk chapters 10-14

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

may's monthly musings

The Age of Innocence: Chapters 6-9

35 books I love

Plot talk-through: Chapters 6-9

The Age of Innocence: Chapters 2-5

New! An audio talk-through of the plot

reading a painting

The Age of Innocence: Chapter 1

a close reading activity

Read "The Age of Innocence" with me!

april's monthly musings

Met Gala '24 and Edith Wharton

[from the archive] fleabag is a ghost story

Edith Wharton didn't only write novels

in my corner of the world

"The wish to do some good work"

Foucault on curiosity

Wharton Wednesday: Book 2, Ch 11 - 14

march's monthly musings

Wharton Wednesday: Book 2, Ch 7 - 10

A World of Pure Imagination

Close Reader: An interview with Raquel Alvarado of Solitary Daughter

Wharton Wednesday: Book 2, Ch 4, 5, 6

"Nobody reads anymore!"

Wharton Wednesday: Book 2, Ch 1, 2 & 3

the uncanny last of us

Close Reader: An interview with Victoria of Beyond Bloomsbury

Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Ch 14 & 15

One year of Closely Reading!

Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Ch 11, 12 & 13

late sunday dispatch

Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Ch 8, 9, 10

ping-pong moments

Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Chapters 5, 6, and 7

"authentic or not at all"

Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Chapters 2 - 4

just a vague memory

Wharton Wednesday: Welcome to Chapter 1

The House of Mirth

so good at being sad

Close Reader: An interview with Shelbi Polk

Read "The House of Mirth" with me!

what i'm reading this week

bits and pieces

Close Reader: An interview with Alexandra

green gables and fitting in

Close Reader: An interview with Christine

[From the archives] two little lines about the mouth

Close Reader: An interview with Christina