Straight From the Heart In My Hip
Snapshots of a Writer's Mind
But whereas being a female reporter was once synonymous with tenacity, superior intellect, and wit, today’s fictional female reporter serves as shorthand for new media reporter/blogger: young, naïve, and morally bankrupt.
(via annfriedman)
Electric Literature's Recommended Reading
Read this now: Roy Kesey’s “Any Deadly Thing”
I prefer this: You’re the author of your own mind.
(Source: senzasouldino, via cat8ken)
Or master of your own mind …
(Source: senzasouldino, via cat8ken)
Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": What I Read, 2012 + A Top 11 + A Frustration
Sometimes, I’m conflicted. I do not want to be overly prescriptive. I don’t want to traffic in censure. We read what we read. We love what we love. At the end of each year, though, I am forced to consider the state of literary culture. These end of the year lists are very, very telling. I am…
Crap. I already couldn’t afford my reading habit. Now I’m going to go broke, HAPPILY.
Always great. Pulling up a chair.
My essay in NYT: An Antiquated Abortion Law in Ireland
It is unforgivable that those we trust to take care of us, our doctors and our government — and for some, our church — repeatedly and even fatally fail women.
jamesclaffey asked:
thanks ethel. hope your writing is going well. i’m mired in the task of uncovering a plot for my m/s. feel like i’m lost in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights with no end it sight.
Hang in there and stay going. You’ll get there :-)
'The emigrant experience is the struggle of being split'
Article on emigration at The Irish Times, co-written with Sarah Griffin.
