Studio 360 did a segment on Sylvia Plath this morning. Click through the image below to listen. “Performative.” Exactly. Plath’s poetry is an invitation to voyeurism, performer to audience. “See how painful my life is, see how I try and fail to absent myself from it time and again in every grisly little detail, and…
“In 1692,” Schiff begins, the Massachussets Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft. The sorcery materialized in January. The first hanging took place in June, the last in September; a stark, stunned silence followed. What discomfited those who survived the ordeal was not the cunning practice of witchcraft but…
Read more …Salem begins to look like something out of a Monty Python skit.
Of course people are pissed off. [Chart from nerdwallet.]
Hayley Kincain has been homeschooled by her father in the cab of the eighteen-wheeler they’ve been crossing the country in since he got back from the Sandbox, but now they’ve settled down in his childhood home and she has to go to school. That would be fine if she had any social skills to…
Read more The wars change only in name, as do the repercussions, shell shock, battle fatigue, PTSD.
Two more days to apply for the first ever Storyknife Fellowship!
Read more Calling all women writers–apply for the first ever Storyknife Fellowship now!
“In all, it took around twenty minutes.” O joy, o rapture, o bountiful Jehovah–the Moses Wine series by Roger L. Simon is now available in e. Load ’em up!
Read more “I never sold out before because nobody asked me.”
…take a few moments to remember…the auntie. Aunties are the rule-breakers. When they come over to babysit, the fancy dishes come out, the kitchen becomes a playground, and screen time and bedtime extend. They go on adventures, take my kids to slightly inappropriate movies and shows, and they expose them to new music. They are…
“Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.”
