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Have a Slice of Espresso Cheese for National Coffee Day!

Happy National Coffee Day! …Just don’t post a photo of your coffee or you might anger Rant Chic. Although, apparently there are coffeehouses that “print” your selfies into your latte with edible brown powder. The latte selfie is real! I had my first pumpkin spice latte of the season on Sunday. Oh how I love […]

Road Trip: Under the Balls in Washington, DC

I road tripped out to DC for the weekend recently to see one of my dear friends from Scripps. She and her husband are both museum people so I always get to soak in a museum with them and learn fascinating history. It was fantastic seeing the greater DC area through their eyes, as most […]

10 Articles on Jack Kerouac’s Catholicism to Celebrate the Pope’s Visit to the US

Benedict F. Giamo’s Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester Pope Francis is in New York City. There are cops everywhere. Everyone I know, Catholic or not, is excited. I’ve never quite seen so many people excited over a religious figure’s visit. In light of all the enthusiasm over the pope’s visit to America, […]

How Is It Possible that Close to Half of College Graduates Don’t Read?

  “I’m not as big of a reader as you,” my brother said to me over the phone. Dismissive of his reading habits as he was, my brother is a reader. He was telling me about a book he by a woman he’d heard about on a podcast. Felicia Day‘s You’re Never Weird on the Internet […]

Photos and Video from My Reading at WORD Jersey City

Last month I had the exciting opportunity of reading at WORD bookstore in Jersey City with my friends and colleagues from the  Hobart Festival of Women Writers. One of my very best friends, Sue Jin Chang, came out to support me and took me out for a drink at Barcade to calm my pre-reading jitters. I was, […]

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Other Writers in Uniform

Flavorwire posted photos of writers from the Lost Generation’s F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway to the Beat Generation’s Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in uniform.    So often the media portrays writers as counter-culture rebels who refused to conform, but every once in a while we catch a glimpse of them wearing a uniform […]

THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19: The Redeemed Writer: The Call and the Practice

I just returned from a fantastic time teaching at the Hobart Festival of Women Writers, and now this Saturday is the writing retreat The Redeemed Writer: The Call and the Practice. I was one of the organizers of the one-day session of panels, and I’m thrilled with the fantastic lineup we have scheduled. All our […]

Sophfronia Scott on Writing About a Generation

I had the opportunity to interview Sophfronia Scott for the Festival of Women Writers. She is the queen of outlining, and her discipline makes me realize how structure can actually free up creativity. Sophfronia’s first big publication was writing about Generation X for Time Magazine. Since I am interested in the notion of categorizing people and […]

Nerdy Travelers Rejoice: A Bucket List of Literary Museums for Literary Travelers

Bustle came out with a listicle entitled “9 Best Museum In The World for Book Lovers, Because There’s Nothing Like An Original Manuscript.” It has some fantastic recommendations that this nerdy traveler will undoubtedly be adding to her bucket list. No list can ever be complete, so I’d like to add my recommendations: The Beat Museum […]

Poet Esther Cohen on Collaboration

I had the opportunity to interview poet Esther Cohen for the Festival of Women Writers. She is an amazing talent, and I learn so much just from listening to the types of questions she asks. As someone who has studied writers in collaboration, I was particularly interested to ask Esther about her collaborative projects. Here’s […]