Essays

There are many reasons for why I love Fridays: Friday Free Nook Book, no classes to teach, and catching up on emails and social media. This Friday, after I downloaded Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned to my Nook (free book, squee!), I discovered that no less than eight people had tweeted and emailed me the same link. I’ve blogged about Jim C. Hines funny stuff before. The man makes me laugh often, but today he’s outdone himself. There is so much we can say about…

(This also posted at Bark.) I’m having a party on June 18th at 6 pm and you are invited. This isn’t just any kind of party, I will host a gathering at my house, but at the same time, all around the world, other people will have the same party—on the same theme. What’s our theme you ask? I’ll tell you, we’re CONNECTING THROUGH FOOD, one of my favorite ways of connecting. We’re also celebrating the release of Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World (a Three River Press original). Forty-one authors, of…

I’ve known about the book for a while now, but when I received the cover it it really sunk in that I’m going to be published–in a book! I may be biased, but this is the most beautiful book cover I have ever seen. I can’t wait to hold a copy in my hand, hope there are many more that feels the same way and that it will make a ton of money for the kids in India. It’s an honor to be part of this project with Rita and to be published among such fantastic writers. As you Buy…

When I read Rita Golden Gelman’s Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World in 2005, I immediately wanted to know more about the fascinating author. Actually, what I really wanted to do right after reading the book was to sell all my stuff, pack a backpack and start living a nomadic life like hers. I had travelled around in South East Asia and Europe for most of 2002 and was very keen on adapting that lifestyle full time. After I calmed down a bit, I logged on to Rita’s website instead of listing all my possessions…

Wow, talk about a testosterone shower. This book is full go from the beginning to end. Here’s the last craft essay I’ll post from the profiles class. Righteous Now and Then Tom Wolfe was not present when a lot of the conversations and other events he reports on in The Right Stuff took place. He started writing about astronauts in 1972 for a series of articles for Rolling Stonesmagazine about the Apollo 17 mission and eventually began researching the whole of the space program. The only way to find out what happened during Project Mercury, which ran from 1959 through…