Kids Without Horses

This is a collection of weird creative nonfiction pieces. In this personal pet-project of sorts gathered and shaped when COVID hit through mid-2024 Jennifer Spiegel brings together some previously published pieces an Ode to David Sedaris and a little Gen X-obsessing. The topics are diverse: philosophizing over Pulp Fiction or recalling Spiegel's failure to pass the Foreign Service Exam often gives way to thoughts on creative writing and Art (uppercase A). Frankly this is a myopic personal and eclectic collection. It's okay to repeat that: a myopic personal and eclectic collection. From Red Square and Dublin to Oklahoma and Brooklyn from Nelson Mandela and Michael Scott to Donald Trump and Larry David from Rick Springfield and Ethan Hawke to U2 and Elena Ferrante Spiegel writes with well gusto on religion and race and rock 'n' roll. This is at the end of the day unorthodox orthodoxy.