September 2011
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“Being in love is like leaning on a broken reed. It is to be precariously...”
– Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel by Hilary Thayer Hamann
Chicken and Egg
What came first: the kindred or the momentum?
I’m currently in the best situation I could ask for: I’m feeling the heartbeat of what I’m both reading and writing. As my revisions have been taking shape and picking up speed, I’ve also had my nose in a book (Hilary Thayer Hamann’s Anthology of an American Girl) whose voice and style has resonated with me more than...
“It was no longer a surprise to him that every one of the women he met was a...”
– “Madeline” by Sam Allingham, n+1
I’m beginning to realize why, this time around, my writing is feeling more substantial. And it has everything to do with honesty.
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“I’m more surprised more of us aren’t crazy. I didn’t see...”
– Adrienne Walsh (FDNY), as told to Chris Smith in New York magazine’s “9/11 One Day, Ten Years” issue