Quote of the Week:“We are all migrants through time.” –Mohsin Hamid, Exit West What I’m reading:The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (truly, truly terrifying) What I’m listening to:Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (finished this week)Exit West by Mohsin Hamid What I’m watching:“Love Life” (HBO Max) — still enjoying this one Writing news: My website — Read More
Why We Write: Pandemic Edition
A few weeks ago, I did something very strange. I started writing a new novel. I say “strange” because we are in the midst of a pandemic and I have felt completely consumed by working a full-time job (now from home), managing the stress of hearing my husband’s booming voice on his work calls every — Read More
Weekly Roundup: August 21
Quote of the week:“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge–it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” –Min Jin Lee, Pachinko What I’m reading:The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper (finished it this week)The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (truly terrifying) What I’m listening to:Pachinko by Min — Read More
Weekly Roundup: August 14
Quote of the week:“Sometimes what we avoid most is not pain but mystery.” –Nathan Hill, The Nix (which I finished last week but am still thinking about) What I’m reading:The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper (loving it) What I’m listening to:Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (just finished)Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (just — Read More
Weekly Roundup: August 7
Quote of the week: “Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. If you’re not afraid of it, then it’s not real change.” –Nathan Hill, The Nix (just finished this book and it’s made the list of my all-time favorites) What I’m reading: The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe What I’m listening to: The Nix by — Read More
Weekly Roundup: July 31
Quote of the week:“Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.” — Zadie Smith in her new essay collection, Intimations (which is fantastic) What I’m reading: The Highly Sensitive Parent by Elaine N. Aron (finished this week) A Burning by Megha Majumdar (finished this week) Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith (halfway through) What — Read More
Weekly Roundup: July 24
Quote of the week: “An apocalypse is a good thing, and I’m delighted to welcome you to this one. In Greek, the word apocalypse means to uncover, to peel away, to show what’s underneath.” —Nadia Bolz-Weber What I’m reading: The Highly Sensitive Parent by Elaine N. Aron A Burning by Megha Majumdar What I’m listening to: — Read More
Weekly Roundup: July 17
Quote of the week: “Literature can do one thing that no other art form can do: It can let you experience what it is like to be inside the consciousness of another human being.” –Madeleine Watts, Lit Hub What I’m reading: Almost done with these two: The Highly Sensitive Person in Love by Elaine N. Aron — Read More
Weekly Roundup: July 10
Quote of the week:“Instead of asking, ‘How can you think this way?’ try asking, ‘How did you come to think this way?’ Maintain dialogue. Be curious.” —Esther Perel What I’m reading: The Highly Sensitive Person in Love by Elaine N. Aron I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing — Read More
Weekly Roundup: July 2
I’m posting a day early because I’m off work tomorrow and will be doing something fun with my daughter, away from the maskless crowds (why, people? WHY?). That said, I hope everyone has a safe holiday. Quote of the week:“The thing that nobody warned you about adulthood was the number of decisions you’d have to — Read More