Tag: literature

Grad School

Everyone thinks I’m going to get into my grad program except me. In preparation for the inevitability of reapplying next year, I am reading Octavia Butler’s entire bibliography since I’ll write my (nonexistent) master’s thesis on her work and Afrofuturism. I worry that grad school would cut into my dramatic network television watching though. Thinking…… Continue reading Grad School

Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker

Another response to the policing of humanities: The irony of neo-conservatives challenging institutions is that they fetishize many other kinds of institutions. You know, the kinds that lock people up. Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The [hu]man who never reads lives only…… Continue reading Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker

Octavia Butler and Diversity in Sci-Fi | Tokyo Jupiter

A cool discussion of my girl Octavia and the exclusion of women and authors of color in speculative fiction. Political science fiction is real and important, and sci-fi nerds need to join forces with social justice ideologies and actively advocate for non-white, non-male authors and narratives. Afrofuturism, y’all. Octavia Butler and the Question of Diversity…… Continue reading Octavia Butler and Diversity in Sci-Fi | Tokyo Jupiter

“50 Books” – Flavorwire

50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature – Flavorwire. Another interesting list from Flavorwire on literature. This one includes my writer-crush Kate Zambreno’s Heroines and Sheila Heti’s How Should A Person Be? (which I obsessively gobbled up in two days, but everyone in the universe still loves to hate), so I forgive some of their…… Continue reading “50 Books” – Flavorwire

Voice

I am working on a nerdy writing project and running into some trouble adjusting my super-dense academic voice. It’s as though every piece of writing is either up for publication in a scholarly journal, or it’s a poem. I struggle mightily with anything in between these two. Maybe this is why I am funny in…… Continue reading Voice