Ananda Lima writes about writing in her book Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil. One chapter is a compilation of her fellow writers’ feedback on one of her stories–without including the story in question. So meta. (I like this book a lot. It’s like Carmen Maria Machado meets Pond. Read it this month.) Anyway […]
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But did you vision board it?
The shop was closed and we were sitting at the front desk when I said: “I don’t believe in fate or manifestation or anything.”Sam laughed. He said, “You say that all the time.”And I laughed too–at the honesty of it–how true it felt for him to say that–because it makes sense for me to say […]
Overdue
I kept my library books for a very long time. I think I got them in April. Now it’s almost September. When the first email notification from the Denver library popped up in my inbox I was a little worried: yes we were in late territory, no I wasn’t even close to being done with […]
To the FedEx print and ship
I took my manuscript to a FedEx Print and Ship to get it bound. It was a little bit of a thing actually, finding a place that I could get to before or after work, carrying around two manuscripts all week. I went to Office Depot on Colfax one night only to find that it […]
Dedication
A María David, bárbara del desierto, que mantuvo la fe cuando otros la perdían. I like this dedication. I like the name María David. For a long time and still and in many places (including the US) women’s names are qualified by men’s names to equate possession or belonging. I don’t like that. But I […]
The year of books
2017. Sorry I’m still talking about it. But what I really want to talk about in terms of 2017 is that I read a lot of books. Thirty-five, in fact, which is the most I’ve ever read in a year and I’d like to congratulate myself. Sorry if it sounds like I’m bragging but, I don’t […]
Wait where am I again?
So what have I been up to since January? Well I went to some protests (so many crowds), signed some internet petitions (do those even do anything?), scolded some people (inappropriate), got scolded (karma), got sick (should have seen that coming), got some supplements at Whole Foods (#thingswhitepeoplelike) and got better (but it might have […]
“Time is a Goon”
Recently I read a book that I really really liked: A Visit From the Goon Squad. The characters are dynamic (and many). The story is enthralling. But then, it’s not too hard to find enthralling stories with dynamic characters these days. What Egan does uniquely well in Goon Squad was create a cohesive picture of one person’s life. Egan uses the usual storytelling […]
Why I love my liberal arts education and I’m not scared of being unemployed
It snowed today! This doesn’t really apply to this blog post, but I spent a lot of time trying to rewrite the html so that the pictures would be right beside each other instead of vertical (it was kind of hard!) plus snow is pretty. So I don’t want to delete them. Also it one example of what I […]
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