I am in awe of the impact Ivelisse Rodriguez’s short-story collection Love War Stories had on me as a reader. Ivelisse got me laughing and crying and spitting mad. She also had me wanting to study her text for clues, connections, and themes like it was a university seminar. The … [Read more...]
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Resurrection
It’s been a minute. Life has been a bit of a blur. You see, my mom, Barbara Langloss, died of cancer at 8:15am on Tuesday, July 16. She waited for Richard Simmons and Dr. Ruth to get up there before making her fashionably late appearance at the tender age of 76. She didn’t die peacefully […]
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Maureen’s Giant Gift Guide
I started writing a post about the profound and overwhelming sadness I’ve felt since the election. But writing that post felt too profoundly and overwhelmingly sad! Impossible even. Then, somehow, I ended up here instead, putting together a gigantic gift guide for writers and readers. I’m so angry at the capitalist machine that brought us […]