Fiction and the rest of life edition: “I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance. The only difference being that a writer can do it all alone. I was struck . . .
Pia Z. Ehrhardt guest-edits After the Storm, the New Orleans issue of GUERNICA.
My appreciation of Cristina Nerhing’s A Vindication of Love is up at NPR. Nowadays a woman can claim just about anything as a badge of feminism. She can pursue a career, raise a child, or both; maintain a stable of lovers, marry, or both; serve in the military; sit on the Supreme Court; stay home and keep house; or take . . .
I’m reading one last time from Conversations You Have at Twenty, my Love is a Four-Letter Word contribution, at Cornelia Street Cafe tonight (9/1) with D.E. Rasso, Emily Flake, and Michelle Green. Russ Marshalek hosts, and we get started at 6 p.m. (In remembrance of the last time D.E. and I were on Cornelia Street together, three years ago: On . . .
A great refuser of genre: Benjamin Cohen talks with the brilliant Rebecca Solnit (A Paradise Built in Hell) for The Believer.