The Volta
he asked me to think about “where the status quo is broken”. Then I was assigned the poet Gregory Pardlo’s memoir, Air Traffic
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Kim of Queens
I told a friend of mine that I watch Kim of Queens as a way to bore myself into productivity
Research Trip: Nutley, New Jersey
A dimmed corner of a life and a time I’d only heard stories about. I was in Nutley to seek evidence that the stories were true.
Goodbye to Summer Downpour
rainfall as sound meditation
Meditations on New York (When To Call Yourself A New Yorker)
You’ll walk the Brooklyn Heights promenade for the first time or buy churros from the woman with the cart on the subway platform or see something crazy like a man with a pet rat on his shoulder or a tow truck towing another tow truck
Andre Wagner, Photographer
I’ve been following Brooklyn photographer Andre Wagner on Instagram for a while now. I don’t remember how I found him, but I think his photos are spectacular.
Library Post: Where I Write
If you live, commute, and work in any big city, you know how difficult it can be sometimes to find a quiet place to work.
Revising That Living and Breathing Thing
Is it crazy that I see each piece as a living and breathing thing with its own identity? That I don’t want to poke it too hard for fear I’ll injure it somehow?
At the Slice Literary Conference, September 2018
I remembered how inspired I felt after Alexander Chee’s and Porochista Khakpour’s joint keynote. Alexander Chee said, “I had this habit of erasing my accomplishments”.
Donna Tallent 