melody nixon

  • Embodying Memory

    For Electric Literature, Melody Nixon interviews Ruth Ozeki about what it means to write “embodied prose”: I find that whether I’m writing fiction or memoirish essay, whatever you want to call it, the key to any kind of literary writing is…

  • Good Writing and Bad Surveillance

    The idea of “good writing” is shaped by social forces—that are in turn shaped by economic and historical forces—and our own identity privileges and privileges as editors (if we are editors). Determining what is good or bad is an aesthetic…