How To
Agent Provocateur: Finding Representation for Your Book
How to find an agent? Try cocaine and yelling. JK
The Long Haul: What Creative People Can Learn from Diana Nyad, Tommy Caldwell, and Frigate Birds
Can writing change the shape of our organs? Do brains warp into book-making shape?
Deal or No Deal: Why Being a Literary Agent Doesn’t Make It Easier to Write a Book
To all the wonderful would-be authors out there: Do as I say, not as I do.
Fasting With Children
“Fasting has been a source of comfort, a way to become closer to God. All that changed when I had children.”
Pitching and Moaning: A Guide to Submitting Your Writing
How to get a story or essay published if you’re not James Franco.
When You Hate the Job You’re Supposed to Love
“Jobs are insidiously hard to compartmentalize. So is dying inside.”
Teaching Our Children How to Mourn
“We teach each other the prayer so that when someone dies, we are ready to fulfill our obligations.”
Four “Types” of Creative Writing “Careers”
Traditional, stealth mode, performing, or freelance: which approach to a writing career is for you?
How to Write Iranian-America, or The Last Essay
“The essay will feel like it’s killing you and the ending will not be what you thought it might be.”
I’m a Person—Not a Pre-Existing Condition
“The worst days I’ve ever known could be my future under the American Health Care Act.”