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Poem As Mosaic
This craft essay was first featured in the Writers.com Poets newsletter. Subscribe below! Poem: “Everything All at Once” By Oliver Baez Bendorf Retrieved here. right now, someone is having sex and someone is dying and someone is trying to find a lid so they can, before bed, put away the soup and someone is dreaming…
Literature, Nostalgia, and Making Sense of Our Lives
One of my favorite reads last year was My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff, a memoir which, apparently, also had a movie adaptation. Rakoff explores her first year out of grad school, in the mid-1990s, in which she worked as an assistant in a literary agency—the one that represented J. D. Salinger. And the memoir…
The Myth of Likeable Characters
For most of my fiction-writing life, I’ve written about complicated women. Women who lie, deflect, self-sabotage. Women who want too much or want the wrong things. Women who are soft in one scene and sharp-edged in the next. And throughout that life, I’ve also received more feedback than I can count on the subject of…