David Grann, P.I.
“The thing that Grann does so well is turn his investigators… into literary detectives.”
“The thing that Grann does so well is turn his investigators… into literary detectives.”
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 . . .