Feb 27, 2018 |
There’s been so much news I haven’t been able to keep up the news feed. Brass was featured in The New Yorker’s Briefly Noted series, where it was called “witty and unsparing,” and Bill Goldstein featured it in his “Bill’s...
Jan 27, 2018 |
Where We Live is a show and podcast about Connecticut produced by Hartford’s WNPR. But it’s okay if Where You Live isn’t Where They Live, because you can listen to my conversation with host Lucy Nalpathanchil and my undergraduate creative writing...
Jan 23, 2018 |
Brass’s birthday. Keeping busy. Must shower and do laundry and pack and, apparently, carbo-load. Please someone come see me in Atlanta or Nashville or Waterbury this week. Check the events page for deets. BookPage said really nice things about Brass! I’ve...
Jan 19, 2018 |
I made my first-ever podcast appearance on Literary Atlanta, hosted by the fabulous Alison Law. I don’t think I sounded as much like a bumbling idiot as I feared I might, which I give Alison full credit for–she asked the right questions, and she’s...
Jan 18, 2018 |
I’m drowning, but in a good way. It’s how Scrooge McDuck must have felt breast-stroking in his sea of gold coins. Luckily, Georgia got a snowday yesterday, which gave me a second to come up for air, and now I’m all re-charged to share the latest...
Jan 8, 2018 |
Brass does, and fortunately it made the Millions’ “Great 2018 Book Preview” cut, so its dreams are now reality. Plus, Chicago Review of Books named Brass one of the “Most Anticipated Fiction Books of 2018,” Nylon called it “One of...
Jan 3, 2018 |
The first two aren’t just nicknames I had in high school: the first called Brass One of the 13 Books You Must Read This January, and the second included Brass in the “read” category of their 71 Things to See, Hear, and Read This January. Plus,...
Dec 27, 2017 |
Unlike the wayward Christmas present I ordered for my partner which the USPS lost track of somewhere near Atlanta, the gifts to Brass keep coming: now Elle, Bustle, and Connecticut Magazine are showering Brass with all sorts of nice wordy...
Dec 26, 2017 |
Which is not famous. And I’m not on enough social media to even get internet-famous, so I’m pretty much unknown virtually and in real-life, except at the local Y, where I’m semi-popular in limited circles. But somehow, the NY Times and Huffington...
Dec 9, 2017 |
It’s what I do as a resident of Athens, Georgia, and it’s the lifestyle magazine–as ubiquitous below the Mason-Dixon line as kudzu–that named Brass one of the “Books Coming Out This Winter That We Can’t Wait to Read.” This...
