Reading « Jennifer de Guzman

Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics editor living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes stories about sad girls, seawater, bottomless wells, airborne plagues, and horses. You can find links to some of them them in the Selected Works section or read them at her Scribd page.

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.

A Few of My Favorite Things

“… 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 [...]

Reading as a Prescription for Anxiety

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 [...]

Pride and Prejudice and Marketing

When Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published, I bought it on my Kindle and found it pretty amusing. It seemed a spontaneous uniting of two elements I like — Jane Austen and zombie survival stories — more of an homage than a high-concept gimmick.

Then the publisher, Quirk Books, announced Sense and Sensibility and Sea [...]

How Americans Don’t Talk

I’m fascinated by the old “countries separated by a common language” aspect of British and American culture, the way we regard each other’s accents and usage. I admit I am fairly appalled every time I see or hear the British usage “different to.” That preposition doesn’t make any sense!

One activity I find fun (and this [...]

The Range of Light

Recently, I went to a reading given by San Jose State University’s Center for Literary Arts of Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers by Daniel Arnold. Dan graduated the same semester I did from the university’s creative writing program, so I was really excited to see the success of my [...]