Authors & Their Assholes: Jen Burke
Jen Burke regularly writes about sex and gender on her website and just about everything else on her blog. Her first book, A Life Less Convenient: Letters to My Ex (Merge Press, 2006), is a brilliant...
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Some writers tend to be shy curmudgeons, but not Kimberlee Auerbach. She actually enjoys sharing her stories in front of a live audience. She’s competed in several Moth GrandSLAM Championships, and...
View ArticleAuthors & Their Assholes: Amy Guth
I’ve known Amy Guth for a long time. When I lived in Chicago, we used to hang out in bars and drink Hamm’s and talk about writing and books. We even had a sidekick, a plush pig doll we named Equinox,...
View ArticleAuthors & Their Assholes: Sean Williams
Sean Williams is a science-fiction author – a New York Times best-selling science-fiction author, no less – who makes even non-genre writers look like hack amateurs. He’s published over sixty short...
View ArticleAuthors & Their Assholes: Elizabeth Crane
Elizabeth Crane is the author of two critically-acclaimed collections of short stories, When the Messenger Is Hot and All This Heavenly Glory, both published by Little Brown. She’s also a regular...
View ArticleAuthors & Their Assholes: Daphne Gottlieb
Daphne Gottlieb is a San Francisco performance poet and the only legitimate evidence that cloning may be a good idea. If nothing else, her DNA should be extracted immediately and preserved for future...
View ArticleAuthors & Their Assholes: Brad Listi
Brad Listi is the bestselling author of Attention. Deficit. Disorder. (Simon & Schuster, 2006) and the founder of The Nervous Breakdown, a daily webzine featuring nonfiction essays and stories...
View ArticleAuthors & Their Assholes: Charlie Anders
The third asshole in this collection was created by Charlie Anders, the author of “Choir Boy” (Soft Skull Press 2005), the publisher of Other Magazine, and a frequent contributor to such literary rags...
View ArticleAuthors & Their Assholes: Sandra Tsing Loh
Sandra Tsing Loh is a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, a regular commentator on NPR’s This American Life, and the author of many books, including the semi-autobiographical A Year in Van Nuys....
View ArticleEverything I Ever Needed to Know about Writing, I Learned from Vonnegut’s...
When I was thirteen, my family moved to the south suburbs of Chicago. It was a grim place, the kind of town where culture and happiness go to die. The only distractions were the mall, the dollar...
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