Dedication
Five Points
A for no-particular-reason decision: To take a lunch break.
Dedication
Five Points
A for no-particular-reason decision: To take a lunch break.
French Accent Marks: A Beginner Offers a Primer
Frenchly
For me, an American with a unique lack of talent for learning languages, the five French accent marks (also referred to as the diacritics) can be confusing.
The Morrison Triplets
Harvard Review
Victoria, darling. I have to tell you, I began a letter to you not long after I arrived but then ripped it up this morning and am starting all over.
The Ten Commandments
Leon Literary Review
This was his city, but DP had only so many ways through it. He’d taken one path this morning—from his apartment building to Preble Street.
Writing in a Time of Disaster
The Writer’s Chronicle
Trouble, as we all know, forces a reordering of priorities, in a rather unhappy way. So long, petty concerns!
Frozen
Decor Maine
I fell into writing about homes a decade ago. Not because of any special knowledge, but because a Maine shelter magazine took a flyer on me.
46: A Journal
Narrative Magazine
Here’s what I forgot this week: The name of one of my favorite students, the name of that Carol Shields book I love, the name of that Willa Cather novel I love, the details of a story I read, just two days after I read it. This last failure was a real problem; I forgot the details while I was meeting with the student-author to discuss the story.
Last Things
Narrative Magazine
My sister and I step briskly out of the greengrocer to get away from the men in line behind us who have told us, in great detail, what they’d like to do to us, where they intend to put certain parts of their bodies.
My Son’s Internet Rendezvous
Salon
I took my 13-year-old boy across the country to meet a girl he knew from “Minecraft”—and it was totally worth it.
That’s Funny
Fiction Writers Review
What’s funny in fiction–and what’s not.