Last year on Mother’s Day, I was pregnant but I did not yet know. When I was buying supplies for my family’s party at Trader Joe’s, the cashier pointedly and earnestly wished me a happy Mother’s Day. She was a middle-aged black woman, so if it had been a movie on the Hallmark channel, she probably [...]
 She also writes "Life in Comics," a monthly column for Publishers Weekly Comics Week, and collaborates on "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," a comics column on Robot 6, with her husband, artist Brian Belew. Portrait by Brian Belew. |
Now that I’ve had the experience of giving birth to a baby and being a parent for all of fifteen weeks, I feel myself succumbing to smugness and nosiness. It’s a terrible feeling, to be that woman. Oh, now I know all about childbirth, you know! Let me tell you how I did it without any [...] There’s something that’s been a little bother to me for some time, and I was reminded of it when listening to Talk of the Nation this morning. The topic was immigration reform, and one of the guests was Clarissa Martinez de Castro of the National Council of La Raza. In referring to different groups of people [...] “… We should not grieve, should we, baby?” said Celia confidentially to that unconscious centre and poise of the world, who had the most remarkable fists all complete even to the nails, and hair enough, really, when you took his cap off, to make — you didn’t know what: — in short, he was Bouddha in [...] I have anxiety issues. My mind finds potential problems and obsesses over them. When I was in grad school, I would close my eyes at night with a roar in my ears, thoughts of reading and essays creating a wash of mental sound that kept me awake at night and made my eyes twitch in the [...] |
 The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester  Songs Of Faith And Devotion by Depeche Mode  The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil  Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle And Sebastian Anthology by Image Comics, Jamie S. Rich, Marc Ellerby, Jennifer De Guzman, Brian Belew, Mark Andrew Smith  In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) by Marcel Proust  East of Eden by John Steinbeck  The War at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks, Jennifer de Guzman  Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez  Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon  Louder Than Bombs by The Smiths |
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