Later this month, I’m going to release what I’m calling “an audio special”. It’s called ON LONELINESS.

A playlist about loneliness is essentially the history of popular music. So this is not a comprehensive playlist.

Billy Paul, “Me and Mrs. Jones”; 1972

What does loneliness sound like? To me, the…

This is a playlist about change. It’s not one of my favorite topics.

The excellent thing about fall is that it puts the beauty of change right at the surface, where I can see and appreciate it, where it can break my heart. I don’t know about you but my…

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb, and I know I’m not blonde. (Dolly Parton)

I’ve said before, as I’m sure have many others, that I think summer is the best season for pop music. A certain kind of pop music. We…

It is the primacy of women relating to women, of women creating a new consciousness of and with each other, which is at the heart of women’s liberation, and the basis for the cultural revolution. — RADICALESBIANS, “The Woman-Identified Woman”

I have a lot of ideas about gender, but they’re…

The day poetry finally got to me and the poet who helped it get there. May 18, 2013. The Ann Arbor District Library. ML Liebler. He was electrifying, gruff, and realistic. I bought his book. I had it signed. I had been there because I had to be, for work…

I gave this as a speech at Nerd Nite Ann Arbor on April 17, 2013. There are things I would change in 2015, but I won’t.

This essay is called “I Would Do Anything for Love: Why Good Pop Music is Good Writing”, and in it I hope to offer…

Hi there. My name is Amy Wilson. I’m a writer. In July of this year I moved to New York City to follow my dreams. I want to tell you about what this has been.

To say that I’m afraid to write about what it was like to move to…