The View From My Doorstep
This is my view every time I leave my apartment building. The mansion, now apartments, was built by the man who invented Chiclets. Mr. Selden tells me that it is also one of the most haunted buildings...
View ArticleOn the Outskirts
As people close to me know, I’ve been obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe and Poe’s houses for quite a while. Even though I wrote a fiction manuscript at Bennington for my MFA thesis, I was able to sneak in...
View ArticleHelen Dewitt – Overlooked Great American Novelist Part I
This past week I’ve still been adjusting to my new teaching schedule. For that reason I’ve barely been able to look at the current literary news and debate. I’m glad I finally took time to digest...
View ArticleThe Roundup – Overlooked Great American Novelist Part II
What an exciting day. If there is such a thing as having a productive day on twitter, I’d say today is one. After reading Meghan O’Rourke’s piece “Can a Woman Be a “Great American Novelist”?” I started...
View ArticleThe Book & Book-Like Advent: Day 25
I bought this Dietrich Lubs pen embedded in the Düller notebook for the person in my life who carries a small notebook in his pocket at all times with a little pen slipped into the book’s elastic band....
View ArticleBook & Book-Like Advent: Day 24
Because sometimes you want to say something fleeting but frameable. Available at The Curiosity Shoppe.
View ArticleBook & Book-Like Advent: Day 23
The idea that even one person will love a hardback book enough to decorate it with a stylish, protective book cover might just help me sleep tonight. Design-oriented boutique Opening Ceremony...
View ArticleBook & Book-Like Advent: Day 22
This is one of the three books I have on hand to give away to unsuspecting readers who enter my house. I learned about it in 2005 Lost & Found essay in Tin House by Diana Fox. I gobbled up that...
View ArticleBook & Book-Like Advent: Day 21
In high school, my awesomely strange group of friends and I used to hang out in bedrooms and basements and read Daniel Pinkwater stories out loud to each other. Pinkwater’s collection Young Adults...
View ArticleReading at Cornelia Street Cafe
Wow. I haven’t posted here for a very long time. But, I’m going to reform, starting with the exciting news that I’m reading at Cornelia Street Cafe on Wednesday, August 31st. Evening starts at 6 pm. I...
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