Recently I read Jennifer Finney Boylan’s She’s Not There, a memoir of a life, as she puts it, in two genders. It was a good book, but I didn’t really come away understanding the transgender experience, any more than I come away understanding race when I read a memoir written by someone who is a [...]
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Lies and the Ways We Live Them
Posted in Coming Out, Literary Inspiration, Poetry, Professional Choices, tagged Books, Economy, Gender, Marketing, Transgender on May 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Something for the Cruelest Month
Posted in Art, Cougars, Literary Inspiration, Mountain lions, Outdoor activities, Poetry, tagged National Poetry Month, The Wasteland, TS Eliot, Wildlife on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had planned a post on menopause, but funnily enough I’m too tired, and too sweaty, to get to that this week. Luckily, there’s always a poem in my back pocket. And it’s national poetry month. A few years back I was in a workshop in which there was a heated debate about city vs. [...]
Life and Fate Makes Comrades of Us All
Posted in Literary Inspiration, Outdoor activities, tagged Books, e-readers, philosophy, publishing on February 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate made my shelf sag for many years before I found the space in my soul to read it. I’m not sure why now was the time. I didn’t feel particularly strong. Or particularly downhearted. But I studied Russia and Russian a lot in college and every once in a while [...]
I Am the Reader—A Gentle Manifesto
Posted in Literary Inspiration, Outdoor activities, tagged e-readers, Marketing, Reading on January 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
My literary interests are primarily, well, literary. I’m not sympathetic to the argument, articulated yet again during a recent #scribechat discussion, that literary fiction doesn’t sell. Alice Munro sells. Toni Morrison sells. E. Annie Proulx sells (she’s not exactly my favorite writer, but you can’t say she’s not literary). Margaret Atwood sells. Many in the field [...]
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