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  • I’ve finally crawled out from under my rock

    Dear Long-Suffering People that Still Follow this Site for Some Reason, I’ve been sleeping under a rock for the last month or so. My thesis defense went well (yay!) and I passed (more yay!) and then I hid under a boulder and have been doing nothing except eating excessive amounts of carbohydrates, drinking excessive amounts…

  • Reading List # 10 — Atonement

    I recently read Atonement by Ian McEwan for class. This was a marvelous book. Touching, mysterious, and tense, this novel weaves through and around the life of thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis as she grows into being a writer and an individual. Atonement doesn’t shy away from the idea that being a writer means taking risks that sometimes don’t always turn…

  • Reading List #9 — The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

    Hello again, dear Readers. Once again I am back with another installment of What is Liz Reading This Week? starring, well, me. After putting down the heavy weight of Go Tell it on the Mountain, Aimee Bender’s short story collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt was a breath of air – but not necessarily…

  • Reading List #8 — Go Tell it on the Mountain

    The past couple of weeks I visited family in good ole West Virginia, and I read two books and just under half of another. The posts that follow are what I read while I was there. Maybe James Baldwin’s well-known religious-themed Go Tell it on the Mountain was appropriate fare for my trip. This text…

  • Reading List # 7 — Cat’s Cradle

    Recently I read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and I have to say that I am surprised that this is my first time reading it. I should have discovered Vonnegut ages ago. I should have read his whole body of work by now. In short, I love it and I’m glad to be reading it. Some…

  • Reading List #6 — The Remains of the Day

    Here are my notes on The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. I recently did a presentation project about The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, which is on my reading list — two birds with one stone and all that. This novel is a heavily internal narrative centered on an English butler named Stevens, an…

  • After yet another hiatus…

    I’m beginning to think I’m just a terrible blogger and should give up. But never fear! My inane ramblings are here to stay! Here’s an update on everything that’s been going on in my life and writing. The semester is over. Finally. And so is grad school. That’s another post in itself, but suffice it to…

  • Stop acting so …

    Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. –Rumi

  • NEAT. still looking for photography

    NEAT. still looking for photography The last couple weeks have been hectic, and I will have updates later (along with a backlog of reading list posts). For now, I’d like to remind you that NEAT. is still looking for submissions for our spring issue! We ESPECIALLY need photography, so if that’s something you like to…

  • “One day I will…

    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums