Writing Fantasies

The plan was to stand and deliver. I would carry a briefcase. I would enter the classroom for the first time, naïve and optimistic, only to find my students wearing black leather jackets and casually flicking their Zippos. 

Off The Clock

Warner—built like a refrigerator and sheathed in tattoos—is the proud owner of Wink’s Bar, a 200-square-foot diner in downtown Richmond, a tin-can rendezvous for townies and transients, gear heads and grad students, artists and accountants alike.

Review: The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion by Meghan Daum

In her latest collection of personal essays, The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion, author Meghan Daum toys with that notion of transformation. She finds varying degrees of success, sometimes approaching the pivot only to swing back to the starting line, sometimes barely shifting at all, and sometimes crossing over completely, wrapping the essay with a bow-tie revelation.