Over the weekend Lindsey asked me some questions about my writing process (such as, How long did it take you to write Book of Mev? Did you always know what the structure would be? How did…
Loss is universal. The impact of loss is unpredictable. Overnight Janitor tells these stories. Anyone can be an Overnight Janitor. The idea for Overnight Janitor originated from incessant feelings and observations of loss. Even though…
As the summer Share the Wealth Writing Class on Demun winds down, gratitude is, once again, an appropriate theme for meditation (quotations with page number are from Robert A. Emmons, Gratitude Works!). “A French proverb…
My name is Andrew Ivers and I will be giving a talk about the news industry inspired by Reporter, the recently published memoir of investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. He’s probably best known for unearthing the…
Jessie Sarber and Savannah Sisk are moving to Minneapolis at the very end of July for a new adventure. Jessie will be starting a PhD in Culture and Teaching at the University of Minnesota, and…
I will talk about the different things I learned during my time at Saint Louis Irish Arts. Preforming, dancing, reciting, and many more ways in which I learned to share Ireland with St. Louis. Irish…
“I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and…
Dear Cami, One index of a profitable reading experience may very well be in the marginalia we make. For instance, I read Ed Sanders’ collection of poetry Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War eight…
And I want to tell you about them. There’s Buffalo Meg who is from Buffalo, New York and has a pitch to convince anyone she meets to move there. There’s Hannah Frank who is addicted…
March 14 by Katie Murphy It’s Amazing, Isn’t It? I can be, at one moment, sitting at my table in the morning, Annoyed at my boss for being an incomprehensible moron, Pissed off at a…