About ten years ago, after a couple of bad jobs and something of an emotional meltdown, I took a little more than a year off to work on my writing. The result was about a score of short stories of varying quality (a couple of them received honorable mention in their respective years of The Year’s [...]
 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. |
My latest Life in Comics column for Publishers Weekly is up. It’s called “Life and Death and Life Again in Comics,” taking a look at the dead-and-resurrected god archetype in [...] My essay, “An Empire in Words” has been published by Strange Horizons, an online journal that I’ve been lucky enough to have my work in several times — and now in all genres! I originally wrote “An Empire in Words” for an MFA nonfiction workshop, taught by the excellent Cathleen Miller. After it went through the critique [...] All Things Considered, which, along with Morning Edition, makes up the entirety of my non-satiric news consumption, is having a short story contest. Stories for the “Three-Minute Fiction” contest have to be no more than 600 words and based on the photograph at the link. I’m intending to write something for it, but, unfortunately, the picture [...] December marked the second year since I finished my coursework for my Master of Fine Arts degree. Milestones, arbitrary as they might be, can be stressful, can make you ask yourself uncomfortable questions. How far have I come? Am I successful at what I set out to be successful at? I read stories about a writer [...] |
 Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie  Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto  Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez  Wet Moon Volume 1: Feeble Wanderings (v. 1) by Ross Campbell  Anansi Boys: A Novel (P.S.) by Neil Gaiman  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath  Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez  In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) by Marcel Proust  Disintegration by The Cure  Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut |
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