I was going to list everything wrong with the Emmy nominations announced this morning in this entry under the reasoning that all pop culture happenings are interrelated and, therefore, television awards are totally relevant to a publishing blog. Instead, I’ll write about a book, and settle for telling everyone to go watch the first three seasons of Friday Night Lights.
The big thing with all my Smith College peers in recent days is the new book, Commencement, written by Smith alum J. Courtney Sullivan. We all went out and bought it and are in varying stages of readings and re-readings. I finished the book yesterday and was ultimately disappointed. It held the thrill of recognition – like the four heroines of Commencement, the phrase “freshman” has been entirely wiped from my vocabulary and I now accidentally say “first-year” when talking about ninth grade – but otherwise, it probably too broad and too sentimental. But it had it’s moments of insight, of genuine emotion, and it makes me eager for the beginning of another year at Smith.