A bit of good (and unexpected) news. Monstress was named Best Comic of 2018 in Entertainment Weekly, which was a lovely surprise. Team Monstress is deeply grateful for that honor. Also, Image just released the cover image for next year's hardcover deluxe edition, which … [Read more...]
Focus
Being a full-time professional writer is a double-edged sword. There's the beauty and blessing of making your own schedule, of working from home (or anywhere, really), of living in your imagination and telling stories for a living. And then, there's everything else: the … [Read more...]
Brian Bendis!
Some weeks ago I had the pleasure of hosting a rare conversation with Brian Bendis at MIT. Thank you, Brian, and many thanks to the university for arranging the event. The video and audio have been posted online. *** In 1824, the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi … [Read more...]
A quiet eye…
Meg Cabot, on suicide and depression: I know most people think that those who take their own lives must be suffering from long-term depression, but that isn’t always the case. Most people with depression never attempt suicide, and some people who attempt suicide aren’t depressed. … [Read more...]
The 45…
Powerful, powerful, powerful: Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag 1. The extreme fragility of human culture, civilization. A man becomes a beast in three weeks, given heavy labor, cold, hunger, and beatings. 4. I realized that the feeling a man preserves longest is … [Read more...]
A lush, Indiana summer…
I grew up in Seattle, not Indiana, but the farm I've been posting pictures of has been in my family for over one hundred years. What's growing here now is mostly wild (persimmons, for example), or what was planted decades upon decades ago (the black walnut grove). There's an … [Read more...]
Hope, of course.
It's the Fourth of July, and I'm going to spend it contemplating a better future for our country. Despite the news of late, I refuse to waste my energy on despair. Despair is boring. Despair brings nothing of value. Hope, however, is a generative, powerful force. Hope and … [Read more...]
Morning!
Favorite cooking sites…
I'm not allergic to gluten and I'm not a vegan -- I just happen to enjoy cooking that way. I like how it tastes, and I tell myself it's healthier (particularly when it comes to desserts). Hahaha. I was first introduced to this because of a vegan friend who I wanted to bake … [Read more...]
The light!
Morning light is a sweet light. I love taking a walk first thing in the morning, breathing in the sweet air, breathing in the light. Benicio Del Toro, Hollywood’s Instant Antihero: For Mr. Del Toro, that has sometimes pit his desire to excel as an actor against a competing … [Read more...]
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