Perfectly Safe
In the white, liberal, upper middle-class circles I usually inhabit, safety trumps all other values. Helicopter parenting has become the standard for responsible parenting, despite...
In Which a Review of American Gods Turns into a Writing Riff
Fiction changes lives. I haven’t written fiction since middle school. (Except that one NaNo novel in 2008, but that was therapy.) Even so, I am...
Pollyblog: Maybe I Need a Book Group
. Once upon a book group I tried starting a book group in grad school. We were all broke grad students. So we didn’t require...
Unraveling The Great Weaver From Kashmir
As my trip to Iceland Airwaves grew imminent in October, I rushed to the library and asked what they had on the shelf by Halldór...