Archive - Ephemera from Carolyn Kellogg

Maybe it's time to move upstate

Because this house in Kingston is for sale

Jun 25, 2023 •

Carolyn Kellogg

March 2023

Oh Mickey you're so fine

You're so fine you blow my mind. Vote Mickey! Vote Mickey!

Mar 6, 2023 •

Carolyn Kellogg

October 2022

Reviewing Cormac McCarthy

There are a lot of reasons to love The Passenger, and a few why you might not

Oct 24, 2022 •

Carolyn Kellogg

September 2022

Marc Chagall's upstate studio

and RIP Joan Didion, talking to Hua Hsu and the Brooklyn Book Festival

Sep 27, 2022 •

Carolyn Kellogg

August 2022

At the Drive-In

Seeing Nope at a drive-in theater: highly recommended. I haven’t been out to the movies since the (ongoing!) pandemic began, but I really wanted to see…

Aug 2, 2022 •

Carolyn Kellogg

April 2022

How does a book critic read?

My shelves are full of books but not one of them told me how to be a book critic. In fact, when I was asked to write my first paying book review, I…

Apr 7, 2022 •

Carolyn Kellogg

February 2022

Two tales of the South

In the middle of the Trump administration, I quit my job as books editor at the LA Times and moved to the south. The deep south: Alabama. I was inspired…

Feb 23, 2022 •

Carolyn Kellogg

November 2021

How to make an attic library

The attic was a surprise. I moved into my house sight unseen in the middle of the pandemic. Technically, I knew it *had* an attic, but it wasn’t…

Nov 29, 2021 •

Carolyn Kellogg

March 2021

Everyday everyday everyday sunshine

Before I ever wrote about books, I wrote about music. And before I wrote about music, I just loved it. Like Fishbone. How many times did I see Fishbone…

Mar 8, 2021 •

Carolyn Kellogg

July 2020

Fun book stuff and more. I promise.

Welcome to Ephemera from Carolyn Kellogg by me, Carolyn Kellogg. Writer, critic, editor. Extremely bookish. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first…

Jul 1, 2020 •

Carolyn Kellogg

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