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Jul.11.2010
In an age where self-awareness has become a kind of reverse cardinal virtue, Florence Foster Jenkins has become a hero of mine-- a forerunning Titan among the many who today populate our empty-celebrity world.
She believed she had a talent for singing... and, by God, she was gonna sing,...
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Jun.30.2010
Pushcart Prize winner, Harrison Solow’s powers of thought and prowess in writing are laudable to the degree that bringing her essay to you today is an honor and an adventure, both thrilling and expansive. The piece you are about to read was not digested immediately by me – only occasionally does...
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May.29.2010
On Sundays about 9 a.m. the faithful of Lower Hillsdale Heights (the neighborhood where amateur sleuth Emma Golden resides) begin to move.
Emma spots them from her kitchen window as they march determinedly, sometimes singly and sometimes in packs, south down the sloping street toward what is known...
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May.29.2010
On Sundays about 9 a.m. the faithful of Lower Hillsdale Heights (the neighborhood where amateur sleuth Emma Golden resides) begin to move.
Emma spots them from her kitchen window as they march determinedly, sometimes singly and sometimes in packs, south down the sloping street toward what is known...
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May.25.2010
Time Wise's post prompted me to post this essay, which appeared in the 2008 Spring Issue of Black Arts Quarterly.
The night I arrived in Singapore to start my Fulbright fellowship was the day my mother and stepfather returned to New Orleans to see what broken levees had left for them. I...
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May.13.2010
HOW TO WRITE THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL:A COMPANION READER TO “THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LILITH”
There is no singular formula. It takes luck, skill, determination, some resources and some supports.That said, here goes....
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May.12.2010
Elegy for a Stillborn Story, my new essay in The Millions, is up here.
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Mar.24.2010
The What Else of Queer Poetry9022010
WHETTING EXCERPTS:
…In queer poetry, desire blooms, and yes, I may just marry my dog—
…Beyond that debate, we remain, in all our queerness, anomalies writing aloud the unimagined territories that language spearheads and explores. They may fear adventure in my...
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Mar.18.2010
I'm so excited to have my essay, Traveling by Faith: Thoughts on Being an Iranian American Writer, appear in The Millions. Have a look here.
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Mar.01.2010
I'm seriously considering putting together an anthology of works about/in response to Sylvia Plath. Except they can't be about her suicide, because I think so many people let that overshadow the rest of her life. I'm thinking of calling it "like a fat gold watch". Art, essays, poetry....
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