Category Archives: letters to you
Life With Mr. Dangerous and Other Stories
1. A friend wrote “What is this frenzy of activity?” Answer: I made a deal with myself that all posts drafted over 1000 words had to be considered as possible essays and finished as such and sent out to magazines … Continue reading
Home
I am back in my apartment, home, my things a little unfamiliar to me. I don’t know where the colander is, the cutting boards, this book or that one. I go into the kitchen with purpose, look around blankly, waiting. … Continue reading
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Not Too Soon
Hi, how are you? It’s late here, very dark. It’s the kind of moment that when you blog makes you feel as if no one will ever read it, so you could write anything and it wouldn’t matter, but of … Continue reading
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Sexy Nerd
My former student, Victor Vazquez, is one of my pride and joys, despite his not having yet published his novel.* He’s since gone on to do much more important things–things that will in all likelihood guarantee the publication of his … Continue reading
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A Slightly Longer Report
What I Have Been Doing Finished a draft of my second novel, turned it in. Began revising it. Took out third novel draft, re-read it. Read from it twice. I did this because I went to San Francisco twice, to … Continue reading
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A Short Report on How I Am
People ask me how I keep several things going at once, but they keep me going, really, more like friends who are always willing to take walks with the patient, than dogs that need a walk at the same time.
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January 8th, 2010
1. In a thread on Darcy Cosper’s facebook page, I learn that the New York Times forbids writing in the present tense, as it is technically a fiction, even when used in the presentation of nonfiction. 2. My old friend … Continue reading
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High Fives All Around
Dear MacArthur Foundation Fellows Committee: I am just walking around smiling about what I’ll get to read from Deborah Eisenberg in a few years. Your job must be amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Alex * * … Continue reading
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“I got used to everything except the cold…” — On Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford
In reading for my upcoming exchange at Granta with Maud Newton over the novels Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford wrote about each other after their affair, I came across an anecdote about her I couldn’t use in what I … Continue reading
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Systems Check
On the flight back from Los Angeles last week, it is all about the men who sit next to me. On the flight from LA to DC, my seatmate to my left is a man is headed back from Australia. … Continue reading
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