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Some Days Are Just Beautiful
This past Monday, I was one of six readers at the LGBTQ Science Fiction & Fantasy Reading at Bluestockings Bookstore in Manhattan. I was joined by Sam J. Miller, my former Clarion classmate and...
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Links: Truths, Manifestos, & Blood
Steve Almond’s “Why I Write Smut: A Manifesto” is at The Rumpus. “25 Hard Truths About Writing and Publishing” from TerribleMinds. Do not read before consuming (possibly spiked) coffee. There’s a new...
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A Questionable Shape
Last night, I attended the reading of debut novelist Bennett Sims, whose novel A Questionable Shape is out from Two Dollar Radio this May. The book, a philosophical exploration of human consciousness...
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The Persistence of Silence
There’s a chilling op-ed in the Sunday New York Times today: “Was Salinger Too Pure for This World?“ The author, Joyce Maynard, is a novelist and memoirist who spent a brief sliver of her teens being...
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Links: Reviews and Essays
First, two kind and lovely reviews of my stories: Rachel Swirsky on “Inventory,” and Eliza Victoria on “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU.” Next, two essays by a former Iowa...
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That Distant Afternoon
When I was fifteen, my sophomore English teacher, Marilynne Stinebaugh, saw that I was frustrated with the class’s offerings (Hemingway, and more Hemingway) and brought me some books from her personal...
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