Psssst! Over Here!

I’m over at the Our Stories Blog today.
[And thanks to Commonplace Book for alerting me to Daniel Menaker's essay in the first place.]
Also, I implore you to go read Kate Hahn’s Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary at McSweeney’s today. It starts:
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was [...]

Reading Update. Because There’s Nothing More Interesting to You Than What I Am Currently Reading.

I am the Queen of All Genres, the Indecisive Persnickity Reader, and I seem to Require a Book for All of Life’s Moments.
I don’t think I’ve had my grubby little hands in this many books at once since I was in college. I have reading ADD or something:
War Journal by Richard Engel
This is about his time in [...]

“Practice listening like a doe at the edge of the earth’s deep woods”

I heard “Advice to a Pregnant Daughter-in-Law” by Charles Darling on the Writer’s Almanac today (July 1). Be not afraid of poetry. Go read it!
It made me cry, partially because I think that aside from being a poet yourself, one of the coolest things in the world would be to have married a man whose [...]

The Food of Love

I love breastfeeding. I love the way Patter curls his legs up on my belly, closes his eyes, and melts into total body bliss while he’s nursing. I love that I don’t have to get up in the night to fix a bottle and that I don’t have to prepare bottles to take when I [...]

Books 2008

My favorites are in bold.
Turns out I’ve become a tough customer in the fiction department; the Amy Bloom novel is the only one I was really jazzed about. I had highly anticipated the Lahiri collection and was sad to discover I had read most of the stories in the New Yorker over the last few [...]