Close Reading

IN 2016, Goodreads surprised me with an e-mail informing me that I had written so many reviews—393, to be exact—I was in the top 1 percent of contributors to the site. Looking at the golden “Top 1%” graphic at my work desk, I was certain there had been a mistake. I’d only been trying to pass the time. That I had made that prolific top 1 percent didn’t seem right. But very little did that year. I was in my early twenties then. My grandfather was dying. I was working sixty hours a week across two jobs, and I was a poor fit for one of them, where I was expected to nod along while my fellow administrators talked badly about the students. Toxic as it became, I refused to…

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Poets & Writers (Digital) - 1 Issue, May/June 2024

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