In Praise of Good Bookstores

Lily Houston Smith is a critic, essayist, and podcast editor based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Soft Punk Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Guernica. She edits book reviews and reading lists for Laid Off NYC and is currently pursuing an MA in cultural reporting and criticism at NYU. Photo by Alana Pockros.

Lily Houston Smith

As Lost as the Rest of Us: On Jeff Deutsch’s “In Praise of Good Bookstores”

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

The Big Hurt

Growing Up Fast, Never Growing Up: On Erika Schickel’s “The Big Hurt”

Lily Houston Smith is a critic, essayist, and podcast editor based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Soft Punk Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Guernica. She edits book reviews and reading lists for Laid Off NYC and is currently pursuing an MA in cultural reporting and criticism at NYU. Photo by Alana Pockros.