Oscar Hijuelos on “Recovering Cubanness”
Loving this interview with novelist (and now memoirist) Oscar Hijuelos from Guernica magazine: Guernica: Could you elaborate on how your lack of spoken Spanish affected your relationship with…
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First Paragraphs of a Piece on New Orleans
I'm writing an essay about my experiences in post-Katrina New Orleans, and I thought I'd give you all a taste of the first few paragraphs.
Look Ma! I wrote fiction!
And you can read it here! I entered a literary contest and my piece didn't win but I got to read it out loud anyway…
Women Writers Still Effed
I've written about gender inequity in the literary and journalistic industry a few times over at LitDrift. I've said that women are grossly underrepresented on…
Russian for Lovers
I was so happy to attend last night's book launch party for Marina Blitshteyn's first chapbook of poetry, "Russian for Lovers," published by Argos Books.…
Literary Contest for New Voices!
I'm on the staff of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, which continues to be one of the few national literary journals entirely edited,…
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