Ben Stroud has recently received fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the University of Michigan. His fiction has appeared in One Story, Subtropics, and Pindeldyboz, and is forthcoming in Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Gigantic.
Last year, I was invited to play the All Things Digital conference. My opening act was… Rupert Murdoch—how many female singer-songwriters can say that? Now as most people know, I…