Little Suzie Homemaker
There was a period of time—a solid three-year stretch—when I baked all of the bread my family ate, made all of our yogurt, grew most of our vegetables, picked 30+ pounds of three types of berry every summer and canned …
As Mitchell S. Jackson likes to say, lit life is life
On Monday evening, my husband and I got all dressed up and went to the Gerding Theater here in Portland for the Oregon Book Awards. At the beginning of January I’d been named one of five finalists for the Ken …
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Five years in the wilderness…
In 2010, Gail Hochman, my first literary agent, passed on The Revolution of Every Day, firing me after five years together. It felt as big as any break up, nearly as devastating as the end of my first marriage, even …
A confession…
I recently saw 20,000 Days on Earth, the Nick Cave documentary. I’m a longtime Cave fan. I met him in 1992, and wrote about it. I sit square in the middle of the target audience of this documentary, and I …
I'm Very Into You
I’ve been thinking about emails lately. Jeff Jackson and I recently completed an epistolary review of I’m Very Into You, which is a collection of emails between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark from 1995. (The book and the review are …
Greetings from the Small Blue Room
(The blue walls are hard to see, but they’re there.) I used to have a blog. Technically, I still do, but now it’s just a place where I occasionally post interviews with and essays by writers with kids. But I used …
Writer, with Kids: Leesa Cross-Smith
Leesa Cross-Smith, author of Every Kiss a War and editor of WhiskeyPaper Age of kids: 10 and 8 What was your writing schedule like before kids, and how has that changed? Before I had my daughter, I was writing obituaries …
Writer, with Kids: J. Robert Lennon
J. Robert Lennon, author of: Mailman, Familiar, Pieces for the Left Hand, See You in Paradise Age of kids: 14, 17 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? My wife and …
Writer, with Kids: Kara Krauze
Kara Krauze, author of essays, memoir, and fiction, occasionally blogging at karakrauze.com. Teacher of writing workshops for veterans. Founder of Voices from War. Age of kids: Two sons, 6 and 8 I’ve started writing this guest post twice already on …
Writer, with Kids: Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work! Age of kids: 2 years and one on the way What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? My wife …