
Dao Strom’s Seven Works of Hybridity
I’ve always lived a little on the outside—whether due to the obvious ways I didn’t fit in with the rural, conservative, mostly-white community of…
Read MoreI’ve always lived a little on the outside—whether due to the obvious ways I didn’t fit in with the rural, conservative, mostly-white community of…
Read MoreThe short story might be the most “literary” form of literary fiction—okay, maybe after the novella. There’s an air of refinement around a short…
Read MoreThis past October the New York Times Sunday Book Review asked, “Is This a Golden Age for Women Essayists?”
Read MoreOpen a graphic novel, and you’ll look down on a page filled with little windows into the artist’s world: worlds of painted mythology…
Read MoreI want to read books with high-quality writing and an engaging storyline. I want complex and multifaceted LGBTQ characters.
Read MorePart of me objects to the very existence of a list that considers sports reporting separately from any other kind. Too many people still consider sports sections the toy departments of newspapers and magazines, a frivolity for people looking to avoid “real news.”
Read MoreHere’s a crackpot theory: as the world grew hot, flat, and crowded, monocultural, and globalized, the urge to hear intimate stories became particularly vital….
Read MoreThe writers I’ve chosen have very little in common in terms of theme, subject matter, and writing style. But the beauty that binds them…
Read MoreIt can be hard to talk about place-based writers—for a lot of people, I think, “place” signals “environmental,” which signals on-to-the-next. It’s a big…
Read MoreI come to journalism from an untraditional background (I received a PhD in media studies and spent three years as a professor before coming…
Read MoreWhen asked to compose a list of women who write about social class, a parade of female authors marched through my head. The table…
Read MoreSarah Menkedick recommends four books on early motherhood. “One of the many surprises of pregnancy was the craving I developed for literature, not too distant in its urgency from the craving for Haribo gummy raspberries.”
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