Leslie Jamison’s new memoir Splinters follows the aftermath of divorce and the awakening of motherhood, but it explores desire more than it does any kind of death. Jamison wants to make meaning, to connect, to love, to feel, to mother, to write, and to revise her life endlessly. There are losses and grief along the […]
Erika De La Rosa was excited when she heard about the sweeping changes to the STAAR exam . “When they initially announced it, as an English teacher, it sounded like a fantastic idea because writing should be incorporated everywhere,” De La Rosa said. She teaches seventh grade in Houston ISD. Before last year, writing was […]
The publication of “Until August” adds an surprising twist to his legacy, and may stir questions about posthumous releases that contradict a writer’s directives. The publication of a last book by Gabriel García Márquez — shown here between his two sons — may raise questions about how literary estates navigate posthumous releases that contradict a […]
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop professor and recent New York Times bestselling author of “Martyr!” spoke with the DI about his recovery from addiction and his subsequent necessity of writing. Avi Lapchick , Arts Editor Ethan McLaughlin Kaveh Akbar speaks during a panel on Leslie Jamison’s newest novel, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, at Prairie […]
Design by Matthew Prock. Writing is hard. As an English major and student journalist, I am painfully aware of this fact. I am reminded of it every single time I sit in front of my computer, fingers hovering over my keyboard as I wait (far longer than I care to admit) for inspiration to strike. […]
Photo by BBC Creative on Unsplash Amy Lin’s debut memoir, Here After , is a taut, poetic, and intimate exploration of heartbreaking loss, devasting grief, and its unfathomable aftermath. In potent, swift, and artful prose, she details the love, and loss, of her husband, Kurtis, a vibrant human and skillful architect, who died suddenly, and […]
A MAN IS being murdered outside a child’s window. A prisoner of Auschwitz, he was caught fighting with another captive. As punishment, he’s being drowned in a river. We can’t see the incident, but the child can. He moves over to the window and looks out beyond our field of vision. Almost immediately, he withdraws […]
IN THE CORNER of the internet dedicated to the arcana of MTV’s Teen Mom franchise, the “good edit” is a topic of frequent debate. Whose footage is cut and arranged in an arc towards redemption, whose towards failure? In her new memoir Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story , Leslie Jamison exhibits a similar concern […]
‘Ripe Figs’ is a short story by the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904). Subtitled ‘An Idyl’, the story is one of the shortest Chopin wrote, running to just one page. She wrote the story on 26 February 1892 and gave it the working title ‘Babette’s Visit’; it was published in Vogue magazine in 1893 (Chopin […]
Daisy Denicore, left, and Tanasia Lane in “The Other Side,” a dance performance adapted from the Jacqueline Woodson book at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Jacqueline Woodson has always seen her books while she writes them, visualizing what the characters look like, how they might speak and move. “I imagine them line by line,” she […]
