List – Top 5 Desert References

I’m headed to Black Rock City for the weekend.  It sounds like something out of a videogame but for the uninitiated (a group to which I suppose I still belong) it means I’m going to Burning Man.  It also means subsisting in the open Nevada desert for more than a couple days.  In honor of [...]

Killing it: Fashion for Writers

Dear friends (Asian writer friends!) Jenny and Meggy started a blog last year called Fashion for Writers which has quickly become one of my favorite internet treasures, not only for its confessional tidbits, its extensive pictorials and its mind-expanding use of language and anecdotes, but also for the simple fact that these girls have been [...]

New Yorker Stories: Childcare by Lorrie Moore

Childcare by Lorrie Moore is hands down the best New Yorker story I’ve read this year.   It’s consistently surprisingly, deft and clever in its dialogue, descriptions and characterizations, and just damn fun to read.  I actually found myself dreading reaching the end, knowing that no matter when it happened it would be too soon. [...]