July 23, 2019
Mix-Tape VII: All the Eguanas for What We Can’t Say
There are things happening right now in many families, like my own, too painful to share. So I will share this instead: My husband B spells iguana with an “E.” […]
July 22, 2019
Thrown to the Weeds
Last Sunday, I picked wild black raspberries in my backyard. The berries were tiny, dark, and prickled with miniscule seeds. Sweet. As I plucked berries from the bush, I thought […]
July 19, 2019
A Day in the Life of a Teacher-Writer-Parent
[Pictured above: The Teacher-Writer-Parent wearing the huge, blueberry-like “Thinking Cap” her son made to “help her think of really good writing.”] 5:30 a.m.—Woken up by the five-year-old boy sitting on […]
July 18, 2019
Staying Composed: A Conversation with Dale Trumbore
Dale Trumbore is a Los Angeles-based composer and writer whose music has been praised by The New York Times for its “soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies.” Her music has been […]
July 16, 2019
On Writing as Wish Fulfillment
I was in elementary school when I first started “writing” stories—I would take the Hot Wheels toy cars I’d collected since I was a toddler, name them all after my […]
July 15, 2019
Verve {in} Verse: In Conversation with Emilia Phillips
Note: Verve {in} Verse is my poet-focused feature here at The Kenyon Review in which I converse with poets about their work and interests both on and off the page. […]
July 12, 2019
So That’s How You Do It: An Interview with Michael Noll, Author of The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction
This post is the second in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
July 11, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Rose Solari of Alan Squire Publishing
Rose Solari is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, The Last Girl, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather, the one-act play, Looking for Guenevere, and the novel, A […]
July 10, 2019
“Slightly Wavy Due to Being Out of Tune”: On Richard Linklater’s Waking Life
“Waking Life” (2001) was written and directed by Richard Linklater, who caught the eye of critics with his 1991 film, “Slacker.” The film’s title comes from the George Santayana maxim: “Sanity is […]
July 9, 2019
On Reading Your Work Out Loud
When I wrote my first novel, Portrait of Sebastian Khan, I often worked in cafes, if I was lucky at a corner table where I could angle my screen away […]
July 8, 2019
“The improvisational quality of writing”: A Conversation with Ruth Danon
Ruth Danon is the author of WORD HAS IT (Nirala, 2018), LIMITLESS TINY BOAT (BlazeVOX, 2015), and much earlier TRIANGULATION FROM A KNOWN POINT (North Star Line, 1990.) For 23 […]
July 5, 2019
Craft Is Not Monolithic: An Interview with Luisa A. Igloria and Amanda Galvan Huynh, Editors of Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making
Earlier this year, I embarked on one of the single most important endeavors of my literary career thus far: an interview series with the authors and editors of craft books. […]