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 [...] |
 Wet Moon Volume 1: Feeble Wanderings (v. 1) by Ross Campbell  Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez  The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester  Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon  Weird Fishes by Jamaica Dyer  Louder Than Bombs by The Smiths  Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto  Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath |
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