writing

How to Be a Mutha Effing Writer in 3 Easy Steps

How do they do it? I reached out to a few mother-writers who I admire – published authors who are doing the difficult yet rewarding job of raising children.

A Conversation with Laura Gómez

On a windy evening I met Laura Gómez in NYC under the Flatiron building where…

Drawing Maps with Sandra Cisneros

We began our conversation with Sandra Cisneros drawing our own personal maps of the United…

How To Be Courageous: Llanto Mundo

On a cold fall evening Rosa Alcalá and Urayoán Noel read from their books at…

Angie Cruz Interviews Laura Pegram about Kweli journal

  And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet…

Writing Ambition: Irina Reyn on Portraying Unsatisfied Women

Irina Reyn came to Alphabet City to read from The Imperial Wife as part of…

Behind A Sky The Color of Chaos, An Interview With M.J. Fievre

Natalie M. Léger: I would like to open this interview by thanking you for this…

Microeditorial: Cyberlimpiastination

  Cyberlimpiastination. You’ve never heard of it, but you’ve done it. You’ve never heard of…

To What Do We Owe This Pleasure: On the Value of Not Writing

  “The goal is not to make a story but to experience the whole mess.”…

Microeditorial: Empathy Overdose

When I was a girl, almost everything could bring me to tears: teasing, insinuations, insults,…