PILGRIMAGES: Ryan Britt, “Holding Onto Part of the Journey” (6/6)
6There’s an essay in my book which begins with a scene on a rooftop of Bushwick, Brooklyn in which a younger version of myself worries about what will happen…
There’s an essay in my book which begins with a scene on a rooftop of Bushwick, Brooklyn in which a younger version of myself worries about what will happen…
Several people have given me very nice compliments about the four illustrations which populate the pages of Luke Skywalker Can’t Read.
Staring out into space wondering what you’re supposed to be writing next is a familiar scene either to real writers or fake writers in movies. In the latter, the space…
The most famous fantasy novel–The Hobbit–also contains inside of it a pseudo-memoir. Bilbo Baggins claims to be writing his life story; a chronicle of…
Everyone loves to label artists. Think about it: the record store of those stone-age times before iPods divided music into categories for easy shopibility. Rock. Hip-Hop. Polka.
Slam poet Ashe Vernon shares a performance of her poem, “Ashe’s Purple Shoes.” Performance originally published by Sole Sisters Film Shorts, a media project whose…
Slam poet Ashe Vernon shares a performance of her poem, “Post Panic Attack.” Performance originally published by Write About Now, a weekly…
I. They said you had no right / to the softer parts inside your chest. / They said / you were better off without them. / They said / it made you weak. / I’m sorry. / I’m so sorry.
i. I know that look. / I know what it means to be that kind of starving— / to fling open your arms and dare the sky / to meet you. / I know the fear of the sky…
Two years ago, you were all white knuckle and grit. / You abandoned your softness in a cardboard box / on the side of the road…
Ashe Vernon‘s poetry first came to my attention a couple […]
“I’m not doing enough.” That sentence lurks in my mind often. That little shadow-being mumbling out that phrase every time I feel like I haven’t spent enough time writing or working or whatever it is that makes you…
Whenever I have a friend or acquaintance who is about to release a new book, I tell them to let themselves fantasize that this book is going to be a sensation.
I mentioned before that I believe ideas are energy. I’d like to expand on that and say that I also think they are gender fluid. I know that sounds weird but what I mean is…
Yesterday, I mentioned one huge roadblock to creativity: doubt in yourself and whether your voice is worthy. Another obstacle is related but a little harder to nail down, because it appears to be real and…
Recently I was taking a trip with two fellow journalists. We chatted about what we have been working on. I mentioned I have written two novels and I can’t believe they ever…