When Lisa and I first began developing this project, we sent out a call for essays to some of our favorite writers, including Deesha, whom I’d gotten to know years ago through her column on Literary Mama, The Girl Is Mine.
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Contributor Spotlight: Sarah Shey
Years ago, I lived in a 5th floor Manhattan walk-up. For two years, I shared the stairwells and some walls, the sounds of our music and the smells of our cooking, with about fifty people I never spoke to beyond a casual hello or a shrugging complaint about the landlord. It wasn’t an exceptionally unfriendly building, it was just how we needed to live in order to maintain some privacy in such close quarters. It was a building, not a neighborhood.
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Contributor Spotlight: K.G. Schneider
You might know K.G. Schneider from her terrific blog, Free Range Librarian, her smart, original, entertaining, and informative take on library sciences, writing, technology—and more. Or you might have come across her writing in any one of these stand-out anthologies: Best Creative Nonfiction, Best Nonrequired Reading, Powder: Women Writing in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. More
Bittersweet: Learning to eat sugar
This morning I read this, Mark Bittman’s new editorial about the toxicity of sugar, and it made me anxious. And it made me think.More
Learning to Cook
Slow news day? Need a laugh? Here you go.