It’s been a long time since I’ve been fooled like this. Authors generally suck at concealing where they’re going. They telegraph their intentions through tropes and foreshadowing and I am […]
Meg Elison
The Country Gentleman
There aren’t many choices when you’re a matronly 15 year old virgin who wants to be someone else. You can’t be the beautiful girl you’d literally kill to become. You’re […]
Dressing to suit your own personal fable
You wore your hair in braids last night and now it’s doing that rippling thing that helps it to catch the sun. Leave it down. You have that loose dress […]
How to Read Your Novel in Public
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. […]
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 […]