On “Unlikeable” Characters
I’m mining LivingSmall for material for a project, and came across this post. Since I was listening to Mark Maron’s podcast interview…
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Caribou Island
One of the things that fascinated me when I was in graduate school was the way that landscape functioned in fiction, and in…
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At the Rumpus: The Last Book I Loved
Over at The Rumpus.net, I take on the Last Book I Loved (which is a book I “love” about once every year or two), The…
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CookbookSlut vs. the Economy
My new CookBookSlut column is up over at Bookslut — I take on cooking and urban homesteading as one approach to the continuing…
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Hare with the Amber Eyes
This year, after many years shying away from such things, I subscribed to a lot of literary magazines including the Times Literary Supplement,…
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