Invite all your friends. Convince yourself that if the gathering is mostly friends, you will feel less nervous. Forget to warn them that your work is entirely unsuitable for children. […]
Meg Elison
Margot Adler
I don’t have many role models. There just aren’t a lot of people like me. I see pieces of myself here and there; I take my examples from a wide […]
The cure for the common cold
Alright, I googled this and I’m not the first person to come up with it. So maybe this is more well-known than I think it is, but when it occurred […]
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
I wrote a book. I am a novelist. I started writing the story that would become The Book of the Unnamed Midwife last summer. I had the idea during finals […]
Pretty Damned Good Day
I applied to speak at commencement about two weeks before the due date. I didn’t think I had any kind of a chance to win, but I tried really hard […]
Adventures in Class Mobility
The other day I was at my desk at my internship. I love that job. (Yeah, I call it a job even though they’re not paying me. I do real […]
Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction (ARC Review)
I love speculative fiction. In “Misery,” Stephen King does a lot more than the film version of the story offers. The movie is a great depiction of how scary unchecked mental […]
Vladimir Nabokov Reviews His Favorite Boba Place
Bubble tea, thrill of my afternoon, cooling of my tongue. My mouth, my mind. Bub-ble-tea: the bounce and blow of my lips taking a trip to the tilt of my […]
Ernest Hemingway Receives a Package from Amazon
The man came to the door. I hadn’t been out of bed yet, but I was awake. When I heard the bell, I lit the lamp and got dressed. He […]
2013 Retrospecticus
I started this off planning to only look back over the fall semester. One of the great things about being in school is that it cuts the year into manageable […]