June 20, 2017
Strippers and Lost Tampons: In Defense of Women’s “Personal” Writing
A New Yorker article recently declared the death of the personal essay, but I won’t be attending the funeral. The article’s author, Jia Tolentino, identifies personal writing with women and […]
June 12, 2017
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Publishing* But Were Afraid to Ask
To writers, editors and agents are like unicorns, magical beasts that hold the key to the publishing kingdom. My writer friends and I spend so much time speculating about these […]
June 8, 2017
Women Who Like to Watch
Pop quiz: Do eggs look like breasts or eyes to you? It’s crucial to identify whether they resemble how we are seen or how we see. I got three double-yolked […]
May 24, 2017
On Mutating Into a Mother
This is the third installment of a series on writing and motherhood. Read parts one and two here. When my son was first born, I feared he might be possessed. […]
May 19, 2017
Carrying Chaos Inside
This is the second installment of a series on writing and motherhood. Read part one one, and part three. Today I told my husband I wanted to find a way […]
May 11, 2017
The Body as Essay (Part 1)
In Ancient Greece they spoke of a wandering womb as the root of hysteria. The uterus is like women; it’s capable of so much but still has to defend itself against […]