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I had never spent as much time away from a story as I had when I set my book aside for three months this past fall. This was intentional. I had returned…
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A few weeks ago I, a notoriously slow reader, was lumbering my way through a novel with which I had fallen in love. Because I am such a slow reader, my…
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Nothing makes writers feel worse about ourselves than feeling, believing, knowing we should be writing but are not. We stare at the ceiling. We check…
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I had not heard from Somayeh Malekian for several years when in the spring of 2021 I got an email that began with an unnecessary apology. “To be…
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I had not heard from Somayeh Malekian for several years when in the spring of 2021 I got an email that began with an unnecessary apology. “To be…
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....and so Aretha Franklin, inspired by a riff that came after many trials and interminable errors, begins to sing “I Never Loved a Man,” and the…
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In the pantheon of gratuitous writing advice, alongside write what you know and find your voice, is the admonition to take risks. Often this advice…
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This newsletter began forty chapters ago as a journey propelled by a question: Is it inevitable or even essential that writers suffer? That journey…
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I’ve long admired the writer Suzy Hansen, whose sharp and insightful writing from abroad about American foreign influence has resonated with me for…
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The writing life does not lend itself to work/life balance. Writers define themselves by what they do, and if they don’t they should, even if it means…
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I was 19 when I first went to Cuba and I fell in love with the country almost instantly. There was so much beauty in Havana – the colors, the buildings…
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Writerland, Chapter 36: You’re Smart. Don’t Think So Much. Hold on, you say: your advice makes no sense. You tell us we are smart but not to think too…
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