I’m having a week. My first piece for Canadian media is up today on CBC Arts. https://www.cbc.ca/arts/an-american-in-toronto-everything-changed-just-as-this-writer-started-calling-the-city-home-1.5543054
My Never-Ending Migraine
This chronicle of my headache woes has gotten a wonderful response. Thanks to everyone who read on Medium.
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We’re Living in the Joan Rivers Age of Comedy
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In Defense of Trash: Why Pleasure Should Never Be Guilty
I wrote about why I don’t believe in guilty pleasures for Literary Hub.
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An Original Adventure
Me on the parties and pathos of Elizabeth Hardwick in the The Believer.
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Critical Intimacy
On Susan Sontag’s life, death, and obituaries, from The Believer.
Obsessed with the Dresses
This, my first literary magazine publication, was a very long time in the making, and the remaking, and the submitting, and more submitting, etc. I’m still amazed that “Obsessed with the Dresses” actually made it into publication and I’m grateful for the many friends who helped along the way.
No Biggie, Just Me in the TLS
My debut in the TLS is a brief review of Jeannie Vanasco’s heart-wrenching Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl.
My 2019 Top Ten List
We did a bunch of year-end lists at Crime Reads (I particularly did the psychological thrillers) but I thought maybe I’d do a more inclusive year-end list, which reflects what I actually read, These are in no particular order, though I’d make a special plea for Snyder’s book, which I don’t feel like it got the publicity it deserves: Continue reading
The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked
For a Sontag geek like me this was pure pleasure (at Lit Hub).
