One of the first 45s* I bought was Donna Summer’s “Bad Girls.” I typically prefer the words “woman” or “broad” or “amazing organizational powerhouse,” but I can still get down with the G word on occasion, and invite you to…
Building on the critical success of his first novel, Touch, Alexi Zentner’s second release, The Lobster Kings, appeared last year to widespread acclaim. Set on fictional Loosewood Island near the border between Maine and Canada, The Lobster Kings follows first-person…
Once again, I find myself gestating two babies: my book and an actual human child, currently two weeks out from D-Day. This happened two years ago too, smack in the middle of the Novel Incubator. I went to class one…
Sometimes, you have to eat at your desk while working or writing or reading blogs (except for that one potential employer who warned me that eating at your desk — lunch or snacks* — is not permitted). Gillian Anderson approves….
By Guest Contributor Amber Love. (This post originally appeared on Amber’s website, Amber Unmasked) Trigger warning: sexual assault discussion I’m not sure I can adequately describe how stressed I was reading and reviewing CANARY by Duane Swierczynski. I’m not going to…
Novels are my second love, the roast beef in my diet. And I relish the meal. But I down short stories like chocolates. For their density. For their Pow! of feeling and their electric insight. I’d venture to say that…