Harvey Milk’s Birthday, 1979
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Last night the news that New Hampshire had passed a marriage-equality bill to legalize same-sex marriage in January didn’t even lead the stories. This turn of events — the sixth state to pass this historic civil-rights legislation — is now just part of the rolling stone of social justice [...]
Still on the road, but just got word that “The Outlaw Bride” (published a few months back in Ninth Letter) was selected for The Best American Nonrequired Reading — an annual anthology I have always found fresh and delicious. I didn’t even know the essay had been submitted! (Or perhaps I knew and had [...]
I was afraid to start reading The Whole Five Feet, because I was worried it would be the book that Christopher Beha admits he thought he would be writing — a gimmick book in which a cagey young New Yorker does “X” for a year in order to have done something clever enough to write [...]
I’ve been crazy-busy at work, and in the limited amount of time that is not-work I’ve been working on a short story, which I just submitted (sans ending, which I still haven’t thunk up) to my writing workshop.
I haven’t written fiction since a high school creative writing class in 1974. I was initially inspired to [...]
“Who does Robert Olen Butler think he is?”
I was trying to explain to a young man why you always, always carry a writing notebook and a pen, so I showed him this genuine, overhead-in-the-hallways, can’t-make-this-stuff-up line I had jotted down minutes earlier, and no, I’m not telling you who said it — not here on [...]
Sugar lady, be my saviour,
‘Cause I’m tired, I’ve been eight days on the road.
That’s right, eight days on the road,
Travelin’ through the night,
There ain’t no town, ain’t no town, ain’t no rest tonight.
I am zooming through this post since the work-bell clangs in 24 minutes, but here’s my latest adventures:
Whisked off to Computers in Libraries, [...]
Today I am taking a writing day, as a way to help my writing soul and displace me from the omnipresent Now. I have too many writing tasks to work on in the next fourteen hours, and that’s a wonderful problem to contemplate!
But I had this link roundup written, so here you go. As more [...]
When I was a little girl I fell down the stairs. What I remember most is not the eyes-open terror of feeling my awkward, clumsy body suddenly loose and limber in free-fall, an unwilling astronaut launched on a possibly lethal space-walk, but my mother’s story of watching me tumble down the stairs, unable to stop [...]
The latest issue of Ninth Letter — a physically-gorgeous journal from the University of Illinois — includes my essay, “The Outlaw Bride,” about my marriage to my partner Sandy in 2004 and its aftermath after our marriage was invalidated by the state. It’s an essay about the meaning of marriage, and love, and stuff even [...]
Before this gets completely stale!
Literary essays accepted for publication: 3
Literary submissions rejected: 7 [Note: should be much higher; this means I didn't submit enough.]
Literary essays included in “Best Of” anthologies or nominated for the Pushcart Prize: 2
New essays started: 4
New essays completed: 1
Essays in SubmissionLand as of 12/28/30 12/28/08: 2
Trade articles published: 6
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