Jen, Gish. Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. I’m reading Matthew Salesses’s excellent book Craft in the Real World, which cites Jen’s book in fascinating enough ways that I decided to buy it. I haven’t read any of Jen’s work in about fifteen years, but I enjoyedContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Gish Jen’s Tiger Writing”
Monthly Archives: May 2022
Books Acquired Recently: Book Club Edition
Last night I went to Book Club, a combination bookshop/bar/coffeehouse in Manhattan, for the first time. Three authors read, and I bought two of their books. Jones, Chloé Cooper. Easy Beauty: A Memoir. New York: Avid Reader Press, 2022. Songsiridej, Alyssa. Little Rabbit. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.
Writing Activity, April 2022
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself–to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of the pandemic (Which is still going on! Keep wearing masks!)–and partlyContinue reading “Writing Activity, April 2022”
Daniel Shank Cruz 