Last week my interview with Mark Torrender of Talk Beliefs was published. We discussed what it was like to spend my teen years in
Unreformed
Process
Back in high school, back before Escuela Caribe, I liked to take pictures. I’d spend hours cutting out scraps of images and arranging them on cardstock, making collages from the discards. This summer I finished the final draft of Unreformed. The narrative wasn’t working so I tried something different- I cut the entire book into pieces,…
How I Write: Writing Process Blog Tour
You know that friend you have from far off who always attends the same summer camp as you? That’s my friend Tonya Canada. We’ve spent the past three summers in Portland at the Tin House Writer’s Workshop. Her work is funny, fearless, and concise. She tagged me in this blog tour, where you discuss your writing, as well as the process. Read…
On Writing: Moonlit Mile
Last week I wrote this chapter about a friend of mine and he is dead now, but not while I was writing, because then we both lived. And in my mind we were fifteen sixteen and we were driving through the Delta, and where we were driving everything was deserted and dark. And we were…