May 21, 2012

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On Vonnegut, Drama, and Expectation

Derek Sivers is a musician and an entrepreneur. After attending Berklee College of Music in the 80s, Sivers ...

Fantasies Realized: Daemons Exist, Elizabeth Gilbert Inspires

Sometime in 2007, I swore that I’d rather sell my corporeal being to a riled-up Mike Huckabee than to ...

On Diane di Prima and the Rules She Broke

My roommate Amy, a heterosexual fiction writer of 35, recently lamented that all successful female authors are ...

On Disappointment

I’ve heretofore avoided this topic for reasons of politics and personal pride, but I believe it’s ...

On Wanderlust

The past week found me traveling cross-country. Snow and potholes chased our tiny white Hyundai from St. Louis ...

Reclaiming My Joy

Sometime in October, I made a promise to myself. I wanted to start writing more like a professional, so I made ...

Writing Exercise: Place Memory

I tend to write settings best in retrospect. My stories from New England were written in New York, my Brooklyn ...

So Catty It Should Be Illegal

The other night, after an exhausting bout of wishful conversation, someone asked me how I would react if a book ...

A Speculation on Speculation

For months, as I’ve grown increasingly obsessed with the ...

Writing Exercise: The Classic

I’m newly terrified of fiction exercises. In the three weeks since I’ve finished MFA applications, ...