When my son was in the first grade, he asked if we could write a book together. Absolutely thrilled by the suggestion, as any writer-slash-mother would be, I immediately hopped to my feet, grabbed some pens, and tore a few pages from the massive box of connected dot matrix paper … [Read more...]
The Cost of Dragons
I'm thrilled to have three new hybrid pieces in the gorgeous last issue of RUBY: "The Cost of Dragons," "I Never Made the Toast," and "Anti-ode to the Egg." I have loved this food-focused literary magazine since its conception and am very sad to see the project end. But it is … [Read more...]
CHARM, Still-Life, and Old Lady Abs
This winter is kicking my ass. I am DRAGGING. It’s partly the brutal cold, it’s partly some health stuff, but it’s mostly the state of the world. I’m heartsick over the violence ICE has perpetrated and the fear that our immigrant and urban communities are living under, … [Read more...]
You Have to Be Flinchable
This weekend, I attended Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews’s inspiring conversation at The New Yorker Festival. The talk made me laugh—and also cry. There were moments I had to hold back sobs. This was also my experience of reading both Li’s and Toews’s work: moved so deeply and in so … [Read more...]
A Groundling’s View of Twelfth Night
My ninth-grader is obsessed with Shakespeare, so last week my husband and I decided to wait in line for free tickets to Twelfth Night. While we’ve gone to Shakespeare in the Park a few times with corporate tickets, we’ve never waited on the line and experienced this particular … [Read more...]
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