Essays

“In every interaction there’s someone with power and someone without. If you are the latter, your two most important virtues are patience and persistence.”

Our grocery store. Our bank. Our beloved local coffee shop and pizza parlor. I didn’t know where I was until I saw the magnolia tree, rigid and charred.

The state was good. Parents were not necessarily good. Sometimes, in order to serve the state, you had to turn your parents in.

I want to explain how they went about injecting the deer with birth control.

I’ve never had a cavity, but I brush too hard. A decade ago, a dentist told me I was scrubbing away my own flesh.

“What a Wonderful World” was something of a protest from the very start.

…I had not yet read horror written by another woman with such a rich, arresting evocation of female sexuality.

It’s hard to go on reading when you don’t remember what happened twenty pages ago, so I haven’t read many novels recently.

One of my friends, Enzo, had just died, and he’d probably felt a similar way, invincible and lost.