Surprise Me! | Talking Writing

Not sure what to read next? Try your luck here:

media debate • books • movies

I now carry a whole library in my hip pocket, using a variety of insanely small gadgets.

why I write • faith • visual art

It felt like being on a ledge, with vast emptiness below my feet. I wasn't writing—but I wasn't not writing.

advice • teaching • interviews

I had that mommy guilt about what I was doing.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

Over the years, my memory has cast that night in moon and crickets and lilacs, dialogue even, although it’s all a lie.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

I know a lot about empty skylines and the land that has become a hollowed belly.

from adoption to writerly sins...

A conversation about Fay's "Pathological" memoir and mental-health misdiagnoses (yes, plural).