Monthly Archives: February 2011
Intimacy at the center of the world
NYC is crawling with people doing all kinds of things–couples are breaking up on the street, smokers are huddling in doorways catching one last drag on a cigarette, UPS and FedEx dudes are pushing wheely dollies piled precariously sky-high with … Continue reading
Filed under New York City
writing talisman
(Zabar’s mug, circa January 2011, at the Writers Room) The creative process is perceived as mystical, and we writers often sustain that perception. Many writers I know refuse to share details about their writing process, and several claim they “never … Continue reading
We Count
VIDA* recently released its statistics on published work along gender lines in major literary magazines. If you haven’t heard by now, the results revealed that men dominate. By a mile. Consistently. Across all magazines. What ensued is a wave of … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction Editor, literary magazines, Literary Rejections, Publishing, Writing
Stylish Blogger Award
Sunny from Taryn’s Design Diary has granted me…a…(wait for it —!) Stylish Blogger Award. Bwahahahahahahaaaaa!! I am so honored, as I dwell these days in uber-stylish downtown Manhattan, where I often feel like the frumpiest thing around. I admit–and as … Continue reading
Filed under Memes
