When I picked up Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi, I had no idea what I was getting into. I only knew the book was by yet…
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Published October 29, 2020
Category: curios
Published October 12, 2020
Her Body and Other Shorts
I read Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado a couple of months ago. I was going to post a video about this…
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Published July 31, 2020
Memoir as Surrealism
As you know, I tend to lean towards the surreal in my reading tastes. Often, more on the literary side of surreal, but anything that…
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Published July 10, 2020
What DOES happen when a man falls from the sky?
Last month I read What Happens When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah. It is a fantastic collection of short stories…
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Published June 19, 2020
Sinking Into Toni Morrison’s Beloved
I’m not about to write a review of this book. Enough essays have been written on it. Enough people before me have said it is…
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Published June 12, 2020
What Shall We Be?
As you probably know by now, I’m deep in the process of putting together my Frankenstein-inspired poetry collection. In fact, today I got to look…
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Published May 28, 2020
Cyclists, Ghosts, and Connection… Oh My!
Follow me down the rabbit hole… this week into a lovely story by Claire Humphrey, narrated by Jen Albert
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Published May 21, 2020
Meta Yet Fun
I don’t often enjoy meta fiction. Sometimes it’s because I don’t have all of the outside connections, so it goes over my head. That’s the…
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Published April 24, 2020
Of Covens and Death
For the longest time, the women in my writing group have been obsessed with “The Coven of Dead Girls” by L’Erin Ogle, narrated by Nika…
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Published April 17, 2020
A Mother’s Perspective
As a mother and a writer, I feel like we are hitting a new age of motherhood in writing. First, literature was ruled by stories…
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