-- The Redemption Of Figure Skater Mirai Nagasu - Dvora Meyers, Deadspin, Jan. 4, 2018 ( Read more... )

I've read over 150 pages of Zadie Smith's Swing Time today, with little intention of stopping, and, as expected, the language--the rhythm and vocabulary of the book--has managed to seep into my own brainspace like so much floodwater. Thoughts occur not just as bursts of imagery or blankets of color or even the lowercased savagery of a tweet, but in ( Read more... )

-- The Killer-Nanny Novel That Conquered France - Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, Jan. 1, 2018 ( Read more... )

- George Saunders: what writers really do when they write - George Saunders, The Guardian, Mar. 4, 2017 ( Read more... )

-- The Troubles at Home - Caelainn Hogan, Harper's Magazine, Oct. 27, 2016 ( Read more... )

Among the most surreal feelings I've experienced recently has been the commendation of strangers on work that I've produced.

Nearly a month ago, my short story "Screamers" appeared in Omenana Magazine. My story shoots off a discussion thread at Short Story Squee & Snark. Bella Naija called the story amazing. People are tweeting about the story. ( Read more... )

Earlier this evening, I had on one of my tabs a website for a bed and breakfast near the site of a wedding I've been very much looking forward to attending. It'd long been a dream of mine to do that thing, retire for a night or two, a weekend maybe in serene New England, and I'd wondered at bringing Her, so this seems rather serendipitously placed ( Read more... )

A little under two years ago, a friend wrote an essay on love as an inevitably politicized choice ( Read more... )

-- Stan Lee: the greatest storyteller in history? - Damien Walter, The Guardian, Feb. 19, 2016 ( Read more... )

When I left the Bowtie Cinemas theater in West Hartford earlier this evening (Ride Along 2 was just as funny as I needed it to be), it was to 17 new text messages, all from law school friends and all in reaction to news of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ( Read more... )