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Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics publishing professional 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.

What Are Possible Impossiblities?

“The Poet ought rather to chuse Impossibilities, provided they have Resemblance to the Truth, than the Possible, which are Incredible with all their Possibility.”
- Henry Fielding, quoting Aristotle in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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Sartor Resartus: Lisbeth Salander, Look One

Next Wednesday, the Lisbeth Salander-inspired line goes on sale at H & M, and Mariah Huehner and I will be at the doors when they open. In honor of this shopping occasion, I’m making some ShopStyle looks based on descriptions of Lisbeth’s clothes in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This is the first [...]

My Faith in Womanhood

Unpacking Empowerment

Recently, William Gibson, an author whom I admire, retweeted something about Lisbeth Salander (of the eponymous Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series) kicking the asses of those responsible for the H&M fashion line inspired by her. I was tempted to reply, “Of course she would. A man made her up.”

Men love to make [...]

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Lady Editor Fashion, Seattle Edition

Mid-length Skirts by Calvin Klein Boots by Me Too

Well, it didn’t exactly turn out like this. I decided to bring a zebra-print pencil skirt that clashed with my Missoni tights, and I wore black wedge ankle boots and a gray sweater. Wait, you can see it in this picture of Mateo wearing [...]

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Sartorial Saturday: July 16, 2011

ShopStyle is my new hobby. One of the groups I joined has a weekly challenged to create a look based on a book. Last week’s book was Wide Sargasso Sea, which imagines the story of Mr. Rochester’s doomed wife, Bertha. Her name is Antoinette, and she is a Creole in Jamaica, inhabiting an interstitial place [...]

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Sartorial Saturday: July 9, 2011 - Roman Holiday

As my “What They’re Wearing” posts might have hinted to you, I love the role clothing can play in storytelling. Even if I don’t describe my characters’ clothes, I know what they’re wearing and why.

In a similar way, I tend to use what I wear to tell a story about myself — even [...]