John Roderick: songwriter and singer/guitarist for The Long Winters. His film and music reviews have appeared in The Stranger and he is a frequent contributor to Seattle Weekly. (You might want to check out his most recent article, “Punk Rock Is …
Yesterday I woke up at 5:45, made myself as presentable as possible, and headed down to my office to give a reading to Beverly Army Williams’s creative writing class at Westfield State University via FaceTime at the ungodly hour of …
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PANK recently sent me questions for the author interview they’ll be posting as a followup to my story that ran in their September edition. The questions have me thinking about the story, and people’s varied reactions to it. My own …
1. This ridiculous essay made the rounds on Twitter the other day. I was buried in children but promised to share my thoughts later, then didn’t have the energy to make good on that promise once the kids were asleep. …
My neighbor said that a few weeks ago, in response to the infodump I’d just delivered about keeping backyard chickens. I hadn’t thought of myself that way, but when he said it, it felt true. I do love to research. …
I got lucky today. Billy took the kids so I could go write at a cafe for several hours–one of my cherished writing Sundays. Before I could get out of the house for the afternoon, I had to get dinner …
Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, Private Life, Horse Heaven, Moo, 10 Days in the Hills, A Thousand Acres, The Man Who Invented the Computer, Good Faith, and others Age of kids: 33, …
Mike Cooper, author of: Clawback Age of kids: 8, 12 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? I didn’t start writing until our daughter was born, and we decided I’d be …
Sophie Littlefield, author of: The Stella Hardesty mystery series (Saint Martin’s Minotaur), The Aftertime series (Harlequin Luna), and young adult fiction (Delacorte). Ages of kids: 16 and 19. What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and …