Naomi Kanakia

A trans woman sets out to exploit a group of wealthy roommates, only to fall under the spell of their glamorous, hedonistic lifestyle in tech-bubble San Francisco. Years after fleeing San Francisco and getting sober, Jhanvi has made a life for herself working at a grocery co-op and saving for her surgeries. But when her friend (and sometimes more) Henry...

A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult, too problematic, and too white, and explains what we gain by reading them. When she was in her early twenties, then-aspiring writer Naomi Kanakia set out to read the Great Books—humankind's most highly regarded literary classics, representing "the best that human beings have thought or...