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Mar.28.2010
This morning, they were necking in the tall, wet grass.
Two Canadian geese off to themselves. You know the ones. Noisy honkers, spook easily. Always make a big production with lots of ostentatious flapping. I admit, I’m not much of a fan. They remind me of tourists somehow. All those little...
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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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Feb.16.2010
I have a new travel piece on Western Oregon's Wolf Sanctuaries in Matador. It was a joy to research and write, and a highlight for me personally as well. I mean, how often does one get to kiss a wolf? Read it here.
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Jan.26.2010
With a backlash, we’re responding to that which rides a surge of undeserved popularity. An obscenely lauded sports team we’re certain got lucky at the eleventh hour. An actor collecting one too many awards, his shoulders practiced in a false shrug of humility. The resulting backlash is our...
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Jan.20.2010
Don't ask me how exactly this happened, but the 16 year old in me is jumping for joy.
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Dec.02.2009
WHEN: Saturday, December 12, 2009 from 2-4:30pm
WHERE: San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), San Francisco , CA
WHY: To remember and bear witness to the extraordinary courage of the Iranian people and to highlight the contributions of Iranian-American...
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Nov.10.2009
In a now infamous interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper last week, Oprah Winfrey came out of the closet as “Not a Short Story Person.” For the larger world, still high on the fumes of a Yankees win and the deflating balloon boy saga, this revelation was met with a collective shrug. But among the...
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Oct.23.2009
My favorite city is not Paris. I’ve been to Paris. It was cold, rainy, and full of aggressive street vendors hawking miniature Eiffel Towers. When they tried a sales pitch in French first, and then English, I pretended to speak German.
It’s not Zurich either. A beautiful city, full of...
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Oct.16.2009
“Remember this moment,” my husband wrote today. “Remember this day.”
I told him via IM that the first ARC copies of my novel, Bone Worship, had arrived, brought up to the front door by our perpetually angry-looking mail lady. (“Why was she angry?” he asked. “Probably because she’s a mail lady,”...
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Oct.06.2009
I have a theory that the state of Montana is enormous for a reason. That its vastness is a test, each highway a reticulated part of a puzzle. You have to work hard to get there. Whether it’s 15 North, winding from the lunar hills of Monida Pass across to wind-scraped Great Falls, Interstate 90...
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Sep.26.2009
In a recent article for Entertainment Weekly, Dan Brown was profiled for the release of his new Da Vinci Code sequel, The Lost Symbol. From the beginning of the piece – the very tagline, in fact – we are made to know that Brown is a proud geek, and, more importantly, that his geekiness is a kind...
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Sep.13.2009
Like almost all novelists, I started writing when I was a kid. It wasn’t something eventful, the writing, not like the day I learned to tie my shoes or my catastrophic moment of Santa Clausian disillusionment at the hands of the evil Heather Crater. Honestly, I don’t even remember the...
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Aug.20.2009
Recently I read an article about hypothermia, one of those adventure pieces in which an adrenaline junkie/ author/journalist decides to see how long he can endure a dip in the thirty-five degree Arctic Ocean. Our intrepid writer – whose cajónes I admire but who, I must say, seemed to lack the...
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Aug.16.2009
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The scene in the forest had become for me, without my knowing it, the foundation for the real story I am now trying to tell. The fragments, you see, had to be picked up slowly, long afterwards.”
—Sherwood Anderson, from "Death in the Woods"
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Eslami is the author of the forthcoming story collection, Hibernate, for which she was awarded the 2013 Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction, and the novel Bone Worship (Pegasus, 2010). Her essays, short stories, and travel writing have...
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Causes Elizabeth Eslami Supports
Willamette Writers, The Association of Writers and Poets, The Association of Iranian American Writers