Women We Read This Week
Jeanne Marie Laskas’s “The New Face of Richard Norris” in GQ Richard Norris’s face transplant is life-threatening cosmetic surgery, and the fact that that…
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Learning to Float
It was gray, raining, but a narrow ribbon of cornflower blue ran between the stormy patches to the north. The ribbon ran over the long rolling hills…
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A Life’s Work
By the time my father was in his late fifties, he’d calculated the number of days of work he had left until he could retire; it was somewhere over eight hundred.
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Between Bliss and Burnout
Our $17 room in Oaxaca had a soaring ceiling, easily thirty feet high, though lacking in that imposing baritone importance of high ceilings.
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The Writing Life, The Agonies of Process, and A New Year’s Resolution
Kurt Vonnegut wrote for two hours every morning: two hours of intense concentration, giving it his all, and done.
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Fellowship and the Emerging Writer
Sitting in my half-packed office at Colgate, I gazed outside at the spring rain dampening the old stone buildings of that beautiful campus.
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“She came out of nowhere.”
Cheryl Strayed wrote a Facebook post this past week in which she took on the popular claim that she “came out of nowhere” to…
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Written by Women
On the eve of Vela’s launch in September 2011, Sarah Menkedick sat down and wrote out her vision for the magazine. Vela has grown…
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