Solid Objects: A Life in Things, A Life of Things

Read Virginia Woolf's story "Solid Objects. A brass lipstick holder with decaying glue around the edges. A box of letters spanning the course of two wars. Strange postcards. A nightgown with a burn, paint splatters, and a tear. A tiny cardboard box with a torn up piece of paper containing a handwritten haiku and a …

Vaporous Cadavers: The Call of the Body-Object in Arthur Machen’s The Three Imposters

This is a paper from the hardest class I've ever taken. I did terribly but enjoyed writing it. A naked man was lying on the floor, his arms and legs stretched wide apart, and bound to pegs that had been hammered into the boards. The body was torn and mutilated in the most hideous fashion, …

Fishwives and Fishwidows: A Dreamscape of Marian Engel’s Bear

This piece of writing is working towards an articulation of the olfactory reading of novels. These ideas are still being developed and applied to my work, and I am still investigating the hybrid nature of this paper. -x- I dreamt a cave pool attached to an old house the morocco red of the brick chipping …

Lately: a life & writing update

It's been a long time since I posted anything, writing, life OR grad school-related! That's probably because writing, life, and grad school take up a hell of a lot of time. Here's what I've been up to: Binge-watching Six Feet Under Obsessing over Riverdale Desperately trying to finish a novel Working at AAFS and the …