Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • I ordered this book on a whim and it spoke to me. When the amazing and insightful graphic artist/cartoonist Peter Dunlap Shohl pointed me to Brian Fies‘s work on Facebook, I got intrigued and began following him. I have no previous experience with graphic memoir but as a longtime journalist I know that the best…

  • Apple TV’s show Shrinking debuted its third season recently, and I hopped on that narrative train, watching the first two half-hour episodes. I liked this show when I stumbled on it last year, for its humor, but mainly because of its completely not-Oregon-winter vibe. People in a beautifully photographed upscale part of somewhere California. Sunny…

  • The book was waiting for me. It was a moment when you can’t help believing in fate. I’ve been compiling a list of books to discuss with fellow writers at a workshop I’m giving in June. I want a range of voices and genres, and woke up one morning in early January thinking to include…