Archives
- 2013.04.28: Looking Ahead, Looking Back
- 2013.03.24: Why I Write About Evil
- 2013.03.12: Lively!
- 2013.02.21: So if you're going to AWP...
- 2013.02.02: The Mardi Gras Itch
- 2013.01.21: Winter Hibernation
- 2012.12.20: All I Want for Christmas is a Terrific Agent
- 2012.12.04: Setting and Gender in Crime Fiction
- 2012.11.30: Kirkus & Kansas
- 2012.11.27: The Fragrance of Fiction
- 2012.11.08: Talking About Crime Fiction
- 2012.10.09: The View from 45
- 2012.09.27: Our Job
- 2012.09.23: On Listening
- 2012.09.05: Fairy Tales & Transformation
- 2012.08.16: Countdown to Island of Bones
- 2012.08.09: Just to Be There and Just to Behold
- 2012.08.02: The Idea of Home
- 2012.07.27: Hopping Around
- 2012.07.19: A Beach Read for Smart People
- 2012.07.06: Boston Bound!
- 2012.07.03: All the Single Ladies
- 2012.06.29: No Small Thing
- 2012.06.24: When You Think the Manuscript's Ready
- 2012.06.11: A Bit Giddy
- 2012.06.06: Stay Up Way Past Your Bedtime
- 2012.05.28: Letter from Seville II: The Endless City
- 2012.05.08: Letter from Seville
- 2012.04.15: Thank you, Jimmie Killingsworth.
- 2012.04.12: South Bound!
- 2012.04.06: Behind
- 2012.04.02: Judging
- 2012.03.23: Grateful
- 2012.03.14: Happy to be home
- 2012.02.28: Off to AWP!
- 2012.02.23: Susquehanna!
- 2012.02.14: Work is Madness
- 2012.02.06: The Ends of the Book: Authors, Readers, Public Spaces
- 2012.01.30: Stunning
- 2012.01.27: HELL OR HIGH WATER Named a Latino Book of the Month
- 2012.01.09: Grad Students' Q&A with Anita Mumm of the Nelson Literary Agency
- 2012.01.05: Which of My Author Photos Did the Publishing Experts Choose?
- 2011.12.22: Two Quick Things & the Happiest of Holidays
- 2011.12.13: Insight
- 2011.12.07: Brevity
- 2011.11.28: Giddy Post-Thanksgiving Fog
- 2011.11.18: Feeling Grateful
- 2011.11.08: A Room of One's Own v. A Child with No Home
- 2011.11.02: Writing Your Mystery Novel
- 2011.10.27: Back in the Saddle
- 2011.10.07: "Dangerous Business, Book-Writing": An Interview with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
- 2011.10.03: "I have made so many mistakes / you might think I would sit down."
- 2011.09.27: From the Editor's Mouth
- 2011.09.25: 5 Great Opening Lines from Pulp Novels
- 2011.09.13: Mapping Changes in Memoir: A Q&A with Tracy Seeley
- 2011.09.07: Is THE HELP Helping?
- 2011.09.01: The Help & the Dark End of the Street: A Guest Post by Emily Levine
- 2011.08.28: Oh, Wow!
- 2011.08.25: Thanks for Your Help with THE HELP, and a Panel in Lincoln
- 2011.08.22: First Principles
- 2011.08.16: Help Yourself.
- 2011.08.13: A New Book I Can't Wait to Read
- 2011.08.06: The Idea of Order at Key West
- 2011.07.27: Key West Bound!
- 2011.07.11: Cool News from All Over
- 2011.07.09: Awesomeness & Hope
- 2011.07.01: Summer
- 2011.06.27: Happy to Share
- 2011.06.17: In Memoriam
- 2011.06.13: Hell or High Water
- 2011.06.09: This Monday, June 13th
- 2011.06.05: Gorgeous
- 2011.05.27: ¡Felicidades!
- 2011.05.19: I'm in Love!
- 2011.05.09: Happy Happy Joy Joy
- 2011.05.05: Line of the Day
- 2011.05.03: When PR is an Art
- 2011.05.02: May 2, 2011
- 2011.04.22: Strength, Service, Vision
- 2011.04.14: Quite a Bit of Hope, Actually
- 2011.04.12: Home and Happy
- 2011.03.31: Best of Times, Worst of Times
- 2011.03.17: After the Day's Work
- 2011.03.04: Index Cards
- 2011.03.01: Mujeres, Start Your Engines
- 2011.02.23: Silver Trumpet
- 2011.02.23: Madness
- 2011.02.20: Unbourne
- 2011.02.15: Haiti Noir, A Gate at the Stairs, Freedom
- 2011.02.08: Shout Outs!
- 2011.02.02: Sad Suitcase
- 2011.01.25: Psyched!!!
- 2011.01.22: Nebraska = The New Arizona?
- 2011.01.19: "The River" + 3
- 2011.01.14: A Wrecked Shell of a Woman
- 2010.12.20: Snowed Under . . .
- 2010.12.10: Call Me Sonic
- 2010.12.05: Shopping My Values This Season
- 2010.12.01: Loads of Good News & Opportunities
- 2010.11.18: Finding an Agent: If, When, How
- 2010.11.17: Quote du jour
- 2010.11.15: When Creative Writing Goes Weird
- 2010.11.12: Lots of Good Things
- 2010.11.02: Gone Voting
- 2010.10.28: Dancing in the Middle of Nowhere
- 2010.10.27: Opportunities for Writers
- 2010.10.22: Would You Boycott Nebraska?
- 2010.10.20: Because I Could Not Stop to Blog--
- 2010.10.08: The Waiting Game
- 2010.09.28: Congratulations!
- 2010.09.26: Eating My Brownie
- 2010.09.18: Breathing into a Paper Bag
- 2010.09.14: The Ink Is Dry!
- 2010.09.11: Then Why Is the Cost of Higher Ed So High?
- 2010.09.05: Setting One Thing Straight
- 2010.08.27: Equality Issues
- 2010.08.21: Late-Breaking Byatt
- 2010.08.21: With Nothing Except Your Life
- 2010.08.16: Wake Up and Smell the Windmills, Already
- 2010.08.12: Gender and Your Literary Work
- 2010.08.06: The Big Push
- 2010.08.02: The Joy of Teaching
- 2010.07.20: Good News, Good Reads
- 2010.07.13: Todo Excited
- 2010.07.09: Happy to Be Back
- 2010.06.07: Buongiorno!
- 2010.05.26: Getting By with a Little Help
- 2010.05.19: Good Sense from Three Women
- 2010.05.14: Aparigraha--and a Question for Writers
- 2010.05.09: Right Now
- 2010.05.03: LOL du jour
- 2010.04.29: Praying for Sheetrock
- 2010.04.23: A Beautiful Little Room of My Own
- 2010.04.13: What I Learned at AWP
- 2010.04.04: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
- 2010.03.31: "Snarky Yet Profound"
- 2010.03.25: A Wailing Wall, A Laboratory, A Junk Drawer
- 2010.03.17: If You've Ever Felt Like Just a Number
- 2010.03.16: Spring Break
- 2010.03.04: Dear Hegemony
- 2010.03.01: Hurray, Lorraine!
- 2010.02.26: Breaking Silence
- 2010.02.25: Writing Family
- 2010.02.17: A Losing Battle
- 2010.02.16: Busted
- 2010.02.13: It's a Good Day When Your Clothes Don't Fall Off
- 2010.02.09: This Blog Is Part of the Problem
- 2010.02.08: My Long Tail
- 2010.01.31: Reasons to Be Read To
- 2010.01.29: Counting the Days
- 2010.01.24: Lucky Us!
- 2010.01.14: Heartbreak, Information, Action
- 2010.01.12: In the Weeds!
- 2010.01.07: Got Happiness?
- 2010.01.07: Snowmageddon!
- 2010.01.03: Reasons to Be Blogging
- 2009.12.24: Getting Out from Under
- 2009.12.15: Murder, Mayhem, Birthdays
- 2009.12.12: It's Not Winter Until You Lose a Scarf
- 2009.12.10: Dreams
- 2009.12.08: Snow Day! And a Portrait
- 2009.12.07: O, The Weather Outside . . .
- 2009.12.04: Obama's Speech
- 2009.12.01: The Relentless Meat Grinder
- 2009.11.30: "Soy la Avon Lady"
- 2009.11.27: A Bizarre (Baroque) Confession
- 2009.11.25: Quickie Post
- 2009.11.23: Sunday Night Links
- 2009.11.19: My Walk to Work
- 2009.11.17: Lots of Good News!
- 2009.11.11: Above and Beyond
- 2009.11.09: It's Official.
- 2009.11.04: Quick Follow-Up
- 2009.11.03: Why Weren’t Any Women Invited To Publishers Weekly’s Weenie Roast? A Press Release from WILLA
- 2009.11.03: Powerful Women
- 2009.10.30: Another Bad-Great Day at the University of Nebraska
- 2009.10.28: "Grip" Arrives!
- 2009.10.22: Besotted
- 2009.10.19: Fall Break & All You Artists
- 2009.10.13: "Mystical and Cool": Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie, and--Margery Latimer?
- 2009.10.11: I Want My Porsche Cayenne
- 2009.10.09: Keeping On
- 2009.10.07: Happy Happy Joy Joy!
- 2009.10.05: Protecting the Vulnerable
- 2009.10.04: Sunny Sunday
- 2009.10.01: Greyby Number
- 2009.09.21: Hats Off!
- 2009.09.15: Acosta, González, Stein--"The Difference Is Spreading"
- 2009.09.10: Happy Anniversaries!
- 2009.09.03: Give Me Jury Duty
- 2009.08.31: When Is It Okay to Write About Your Family?
- 2009.08.30: So Moved and Proud
- 2009.08.26: What a Relief
- 2009.08.20: Take Heart, Teachers!
- 2009.08.16: Friends in Great Places!
- 2009.08.13: Why to Be Wry
- 2009.08.10: A Bystander in a Dangerous World
- 2009.08.05: So Much Stuff! (including chocolate)
- 2009.08.04: Hallelujah!
- 2009.08.02: I Know It's Last Minute, But . . .
- 2009.07.29: A Word to the Wise (Writer)
- 2009.07.24: We Home!
- 2009.07.13: On the Move
- 2009.07.06: Q&A with Novelist Belinda Acosta
- 2009.07.02: Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz
- 2009.06.30: Why We Write Simply
- 2009.06.29: Letter from a Young Writer
- 2009.06.23: A Bunch of Dynamos
- 2009.06.16: The Book I've Been Waiting For
- 2009.06.10: The Value of Writing by Hand: Q&A with Heather Sellers
- 2009.06.08: Lightning Round
- 2009.06.04: Language, Thinking, Sex, and Justice
- 2009.06.02: Three Cheers for Empathy
- 2009.05.26: Literary Positions of All Kinds
- 2009.05.23: Attica Rising
- 2009.05.19: Home, Happy, and Ready to Write
- 2009.05.13: Heading South!
- 2009.05.06: Making Professionalization Painless
- 2009.05.03: Felicidades All Around!
- 2009.04.27: The Bone Dish
- 2009.04.19: We Are All Susan Boyle
- 2009.04.15: Help End the Cuban Embargo
- 2009.04.11: Looking Ahead
- 2009.04.06: Let Anger Fuel Your Writing
- 2009.04.05: Nebraska, Just Say No to Wintry Mix in April. Please.
- 2009.04.02: A Little More Naomi & A Panel at Barnes & Noble
- 2009.03.29: Thinking More About Adoption--and A Visiting Poet
- 2009.03.25: Events, Events, Events!
- 2009.03.24: So Much to Tell You
- 2009.03.18: Today I Am A Small, Beige Thing
- 2009.03.16: Ask Your Mama
- 2009.03.10: Dreaming in Scholarese
- 2009.03.10: Green TV
- 2009.03.04: Who Does She Think She Is?
- 2009.03.02: "Out of Fire Grew Narrative."
- 2009.02.26: Another Ending to the Story
- 2009.02.25: Get a Bank to Give Back to the Community
- 2009.02.24: ¡Felicidades a nuestra distinguida Secretaria Solis!
- 2009.02.22: Just a Quickie
- 2009.02.21: And Now, A Word from Our Poet Laureate
- 2009.02.19: Drown-ing
- 2009.02.11: In a Mood
- 2009.02.08: Writing When There's No Time to Write
- 2009.02.07: AWP Redux
- 2009.02.06: AWP-Bound!
- 2009.02.03: Doctors, Lawyers, $$$
- 2009.01.31: Slumdog Millionaire and the Ideology of Beauty
- 2009.01.27: Thoughtful links for writers
- 2009.01.21: Wonderful, wonderful times (with no Jelinekian irony intended)
- 2009.01.18: "My Holocaust Memoir," AWP, Aztecs
- 2009.01.15: A Little Swank in Star City
- 2009.01.14: Excited to recommend
- 2009.01.07: Editing Friends
- 2009.01.02: One Who Won--Twice
- 2008.12.29: A Working Holiday at Home
- 2008.12.20: Happy Holidays to All the High-Functioning F**k-Ups
- 2008.12.18: Warmth, Books, & Cheer
- 2008.12.17: Conference on the Americas! and a copyright question
- 2008.12.14: Warm-You-Up Sunday Links
- 2008.12.11: Gifts!
- 2008.12.08: Sad
- 2008.12.06: Editing Yourself: The Serpentine Search
- 2008.11.26: Top Ten!
- 2008.11.24: Books, Not Bombs
- 2008.11.22: "The situation is extremely, extremely fragile and dangerous."
- 2008.11.20: "My Life in the City"
- 2008.11.16: Three Cool Things: Ethnic Studies
- 2008.11.14: You Know You're Getting Older When . . .
- 2008.11.09: Do Women Exist? Feminicidios, Literature, and Erasure
- 2008.11.05: Euphoria, Relief, Laughter
- 2008.11.04: All Around the World, It's a Love Thing
- 2008.11.03: Report from the Front Lines of the Obama Campaign
- 2008.11.01: Latina Writers on the Vote
- 2008.10.25: "Regional Writer": Bane or Boon?
- 2008.10.24: Lovely and Amazing
- 2008.10.22: Tayari's Here!
- 2008.10.20: Race and Gender, But Class, Too
- 2008.10.19: Cover Girl is Coming to Town!
- 2008.10.17: Art, Craft, and Ethics
- 2008.10.15: Horror Fans, You're in Luck!
- 2008.10.12: Funking, Reading, and Musing about the Nobel
- 2008.10.11: M.I.A. No More
- 2008.09.28: Our Sunday Morning Ritual
- 2008.09.26: Party @ Zen's
- 2008.09.21: "The Best Mind of His Generation"?
- 2008.09.19: Angela Davis was Talking about a Revolution
- 2008.09.11: Thrilled!
- 2008.09.09: Out of Balance
- 2008.09.08: The Other Five Commandments
- 2008.09.05: All the Hoopla and Confetti
- 2008.09.01: In Latest Wackness
- 2008.08.26: New Semester's Eve
- 2008.08.20: A Cool New Piece & Big Hugs to Helena
- 2008.08.17: ¡El Sabado Gigante!
- 2008.08.13: Your Rumi du jour
- 2008.08.08: Long time, no blog!
- 2008.07.25: Two Quick Things . . .
- 2008.07.24: Off to Macondo!
- 2008.07.22: In Memoriam
- 2008.07.22: Back from Boston!
- 2008.07.15: New Graffiti Blog
- 2008.07.14: Playing with Boys
- 2008.07.07: On Memoir and Money
- 2008.07.06: What's Coming Up
- 2008.07.03: July 2nd
- 2008.06.30: So Proud!
- 2008.06.27: The Laugh of the Medusa & Jamaica Kincaid
- 2008.06.24: The Delights of Teaching
- 2008.06.20: A Very Good Question
- 2008.06.16: Hurray for Writers' Groups!
- 2008.06.09: Who's the "We"? A Meditation on Ghosts
- 2008.06.05: Not just another campaign speech
- 2008.06.03: Then She Found Me
- 2008.05.28: Bread Loaf angst
- 2008.05.28: Tongue & Groove
- 2008.05.26: A Hard Row
- 2008.05.20: Happy Birthday, Malcolm!
- 2008.05.09: The Silent Bob of gender-blind college housing
- 2008.05.07: Our kiddo's on CNN!
- 2008.04.16: Road trip!
- 2008.04.12: Juicy literary stuff
- 2008.04.09: Visiting Mount Mercy
- 2008.04.09: "A kind of low-level bottom-feeding life in a parallel world of your own invention"
- 2008.04.04: What Bush's invasion could have bought
- 2008.04.03: Great blog for writers!
- 2008.04.02: "A little bit unplugged"
- 2008.04.02: Wright or Wrong
- 2008.03.31: A terrific time
- 2008.03.25: Off to Nashville!
- 2008.03.22: The speech Hillary won't give, and what Salma says
- 2008.03.21: Dorothy Allison week
- 2008.03.19: "The complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through"
- 2008.03.18: "Imagine erasing past damage to create a more even skin tone."*
- 2008.03.16: Quote for the Day
- 2008.03.08: "Those of us who do have stories to tell"
- 2008.03.08: A good living wage for NYC teachers?
- 2008.03.08: "The Heart's Explosion on the World"
- 2008.03.07: Blood is thicker
- 2008.03.06: A Nation of Liars?
- 2008.03.06: Just check the map, already
- 2008.03.04: No thought of ownership
- 2008.02.28: In Praise of Mouthy Girls
- 2008.02.23: Got lemons?
- 2008.02.22: The difference college makes
- 2008.02.20: Pat Alderete rocks.
- 2008.02.19: Kudos for bravery and reconciliation
- 2008.02.18: Race & Writing Centers
- 2008.02.16: Chicana Writer Tuesday!
- 2008.02.16: Rum & Coke!
