Category: Reading/Writing
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It has been months since I read this book, but I can still vividly recall so much of it. Beautifully written without being overwrought, the story is full of insights about family, love, immigration, aging, and more. My copy is littered with Post-It flags marking favorite passages. This book also happens to be written by…
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From “Boyhood on a Shelf” by Barbara Mahany: That’s what reading together in childhood does: It forever binds us. My two boys, born eight years apart, played with their toys alone. Reading was where we nestled, where we sank in deep, side by side. Books are where our hearts did so very much of their…
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I managed to read a few more books this year than last, so I’m happy about that. I mean, quality over quantity, yes. But as I’ve said before, my reading affects my writing. It’s important to me that I fill my creative well. Because a lot of my favorite reads this year fall under the…
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“Writing What We Run From” by Laura Roque Currently, my people and perverse culture, our hybrid language and history, is all I can seem to write about, and are the stories I think I should be telling. This isn’t a claim that writers should stick to their own parts of the world, but that there’s…
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Way back in March, I spent a weekend in New York City with a dear friend for her birthday. Since I was in town, I also met up with my agent Tina Dubois for the first time in person. It was magical. Her delicate beauty is almost as captivating as her passion and intellect, the…