Character building! No, not in the personal growth sense. Learn how to approach characterization in your novel this summer StoryStudio Chicago with Alejandro Nodarse. One class, Zoom, starts July 25. storystudiochicago.org/classes/classe…

Loved TOKYO UENO STATION by Yu Miri and translated by Morgan Giles モーガン・ジャイルズ! The very best narrated-by-a-dead-person novel I’ve ever read. Haunting, moving, surprising, ranging. Tilted Axis

Emma Copley Eisenberg interviewed Episode 244 guest Annie Liontas for Electric Literature, regarding Annie's Sex with a Brain Injury. Key quote: "...it’s the kind of book that, when one is done, you turn over in your hands asking, how did they do that?" Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

Thank you, Poetry Daily! Love this poem from Stefanie Kirby --

Keep the submissions coming! #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #translation #WritingCommmunity West Branch

JESS ON TOUR!!!

Homemade pizzas, first time baking them from frozen! (They were in the freezer for a few days.)

We’re so excited to be back on campus for the fall! Stay tuned for an announcement of our fall programming!

Would you or someone you know like to be my next editorial assistant? app.jobvite.com/m?37Yghnwu #job

I cut this razorweed to the ground in May. Now it’s 10 feet tall. Tenacious!

Article from the National Review in which their one of their current high-minded editorial philosophies is at last revealed

Almost there...just need to keep the squirrels, cardinals, catbirds, and possums away! #figs #figtrees

Happy happy #pubday to the great Jessica Nirvana Ram !!! Wow. A stunning collection of #poetry. Variant Literature

So happy to be teaching a one-session remote class on character at StoryStudio Chicago on 9/16! Still some seats, if you're interested. storystudiochicago.org/classes/classe…