fiction | Marginalia

I’ve been spending much of my summer reading. My friends and I started a book club, and the inaugural book was The Goldfinch by Donna ..

Okay, Chicago, we all know it’s cold outside. I even went to Michigan recently for my first time ever and played in a foot-and-a-half ..

I’m 150 pages into my novel and I am at THAT point—the one where you come up with excuses to stop writing. Well, I think in my case it..

People always ask me why I chose to move to Chicago for graduate school. Often, they complain about the weather and winters, but I jus..

Last week, I had the privilege of going to Pitchfork and working in the Book Tent. There, I worked with a few students in the differen..

There are some days where you wish you’d rather be somewhere else, and I think the cold that’s been going on for the past five months ..

On my flight home from Los Angeles this weekend, I was unplugged from the internet and my phone for the first time in my writing histo..

So, you got accepted into Columbia’s Creative Writing – Fiction MFA program. What do you do now?

First, congratulations! It’s a hug..

It might be cold out (mostly—that strange 60 degree snap was bizarre!), but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t SPRING SEMESTER! After a..