The Politics of Destroying Language

At this moment, I the writer and you the reader are partaking in a banquet of language that we…

Le Jogging in Paris

Back when Nicolas Sarkozy was the French president, photographers would capture him jogging in a polo shirt with a security…

Tiny Machines

Write a new F(x)

Stories work as functions inside the brain. Something goes in, a process occurs…

“Shakespeare Must Be a Black Girl”

Theories about the true identity of the author known as Shakespeare abound. Among those said by skeptics who might actually be the bard are contemporary playwright Christopher Marlowe; Sir Francis Bacon; the Earl of Oxford; a gay man; or perhaps rather than a single…

Frozen Food

I am staring into my open freezer. Neither hungry nor depressed, I’m simply examining the collection which over the past two decades has…

La Bête

When I was a very little girl, my mama read Beauty and the Beast to me for the first time. Or perhaps we read it together, me impatiently waiting at the end of each page, waiting for her to catch up as she read the words out loud.

A Requiem for Rockaways: After the Deluge (an excerpt)

In Praise of Persona

How to begin, God once wondered. Not with a bang but a whimper. A garden, some forbidden fruit, some light entertainment. Dinner theater. The fall of man without ever lifting him very high. Before the beginning, though, as always, chaos. This inception, this precipice. Where the carrot…

I am not a very good writer

See, told you.