Tiny Little Messes
All weekend, I’ve been in bed, in the limbo land of the sick. It’s a space I know well, a territory I’ve occupied for periods of time throughout my adult life…
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Women We Read This Week
Camille T. Dungy’s “A Brief History of Near and Actual Losses” in Virginia Quarterly Review At the Cape Coast Castle on the Ghanaian coast,…
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A Return to Limantour
The sublet in Berkeley was our last resort. My father and I had been kicked out of the bottom floor of a house in Sausalito for breaking…
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The Writer and the Army Wife
Recently, I published a short essay about saying goodbye to my husband before his first deployment. The piece is, as you might imagine, a crier…
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An Unwanted Guest
I didn’t see the jellyfish, but I felt it—a searing pain at my ankle that shot up through my leg, bringing me, in a matter of seconds, to my knees in the sand.
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Women We Read This Week
Julialicia Case’s “Your New Neighborhood” in Witness In this vivid little essay Julialicia Case slides between the garbage, dog piss, and roadkill carnage of the place where…
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Women We Read This Week
“The Rumpus Interview With Rachel Kushner” on The Rumpus After reading The Flamethrowers, I developed a massive lady writer crush on Rachel Kushner, and…
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Women We Read this Week
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky’s “The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia” in Vice This is a story that I did not want to read because I knew it…
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A Hidden Writing Life
For the first time in my life, I have a room of my own in which to write. I also have the precious commodities of solitude and time.
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Women We Read This Week
Joanna Walsh’s “In Cyberspace: a love letter” in Granta Here is a thoroughly modern love story, largely enacted online, in “the place we all…
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Women We Read this Week
It’s exciting and encouraging to note that two of the most significant and widely discussed stories this week were by female journalists. They’re reviewed…
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Women We Read This Week
Francesca Borri’s “Woman’s Work” in Columbia Journalism Review This CJR piece has been making the rounds this week. It’s by an Italian freelancer in…
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