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Alice on Sunday
Dispatches about literature and life.
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Opting Out of Father's Day
How would that work?
Before I Forget
Notes on a current revison
Writer, Revise Thyself
Observations on revision
I Will Do All in my Power
on nursing and belonging
Green Light
The day before Thanksgiving I had a cold; nevertheless I took a walk.
Shaker Dreams
What if a woman could be herself at the top?
A Party on the Page
Maybe this is wrong of me—but I read every novel as being primarily about its own composition, or writing in general.
Our Summer House (Not)
Rook’s Nest in Hertfordshire was E.M.
Girls' Talk
The other night I saw a play called John Proctor Is the Villain. I knew very little about it, but I wanted to see a play; I never go because they cost so much.
A Safe Space
I spent six weeks this summer at an arts residency.
P & Q
Rain is drilling through the trees and somewhere to my left it is pounding out different notes on the stones of the walkway.
Swimming Toward My Novel
Here is the premise I am abiding by these days: The novel I am writing already exists.
Alone Time
Thank you to those of you have reached out to ask about my recent dearth of posts.
Fallow
Alice on Sunday on Monday
Christmas, of Grave and Gravy
Two Christmas reads
Beginner's Mind
How to write like you did when you knew nothing about it
Tree Hugging 101
I have ideas, notions, impulses all the time.
Are You Under the Spell of Another Author's Book?
get past it now
I'd Hammer Out Poverty
For two weeks, there has been a slow hammering nearby.