Writer. MINOR PROPHETS April 2023; THE DEVOTED; words in Electric Lit, Georgia Review, New England Review. I host the @writerlybites podcast.
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My novel MINOR PROPHETS is now available, and @nytimesbooks calls it "Generous and unblinking...giv[ing] thoughtful voice to the power of doctrine." Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/minor-p…
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Donald Trump’s abortion bans have created a health care crisis.
I trust women to make decisions about their own bodies.
Tomorrow I'll be reading at the Riverside Reading Festival in Paris, Ontario! I'll read from my novel MINOR PROPHETS and it's going to be great!
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Oh lord, the toddler has found a ladybug that is almost certainly dead and has already named it and promised it can be her best friend: help
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Here's a chance to work with me for six months and jumpstart your novel:
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I've begun my big classic read of the year, Les Miserables, and so far it's a surprisingly funny, rollicking read, far more adventurous and interesting than I expected. It's going to be a good year for reading!
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Love this idea to honor the greatest sci-fi writer:
We are thrilled to announce that the Le Guin family has donated their family home to Literary Arts to turn into a writers residency. This generous gift will fulfill Ursula K. Le Guin’s lifelong mission to elevate historically underrepresented voices in literature.
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I used to see cigarette butts as the common scattered litter on city streets, and now I see flosser sticks on the ground everywhere. Are people just wildly flossing and then tossing their sticks wherever they go?
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Write a novel with me over the course of six months!
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Interesting, sobering, drawing attention to problems I and many writer friends have been noticing for years:
for @esquire, I wrote 3,000 words on why it feels harder these days to make a debut novel truly "break out."
feat. Jack Kerouac, "the algorithm," literary it girls, and overworked publicists...
esquire.com/entertainment/bo…
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Writing and approaching the ending of an ugly draft, I have at least three versions of the ending and they're all in a horse race in my heart.
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Such a great time meeting writers friends old and new at #muse24!
Had the most wonderful, energizing, idea-stimulating, socially-magical, whirlwind of a weekend at @GrubWriters’ #Muse24 as a conference presenter! Took in so much collective writing wisdom, saw old friends, & met so many new ones. Now, channeling this energy into writing.
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The author Alice Munro has died at 92. “Few contemporary writers are more admired, and with good reason,” James Wood wrote, when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2013. nyer.cm/g3T3GPx
ALT A quote from the New Yorker staff writer James Wood: “Everyone gets called ‘our Chekhov.’ All you have to do nowadays is write a few half-decent stories and you are ‘our Chekhov.’ But Alice Munro really is our Chekhov—which is to say, the English language’s Chekhov.”
What a great time at #muse24! Met some lovely new writer friends, saw some old friends, gave a talk on endings, saw my books for sale, felt re-affirmed in the wonderful community that is the writer community.
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I so needed that kick in the pants that @annie_hartnett gave at her talk yesterday at #muse24 — get back to your routine, you're probably not a genius but that's ok, find the joy of writing again.
My daughter’s favorite color has been black for a while (love the drama). But today she told her teacher, “My favorite color is black, but when I turn 18, my favorite color will be red like my mom.”
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Love this advice so much:
"You can get by on voice for 50 pages or so, then you need a plan." - @stevealmondjoy at #muse24
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