Steven Millhauser is a master of the weird, the eerie, and the suburban strange. He has many stories online in the New Yorker (you can

One surprising and very welcome pleasure of this year has been connecting with so many writers. We began 2020 fearing that such connections would be

Were you a big reader as a child? I was voracious! (And I loved words like “voracious”.) I started learning to read with the Ladybird

After I wrote the blog post (below) about the consolations of fantastical literature in times of upheaval, I found myself exploring the weird in visual

Reading any kind of fiction has been weird this last month – as if the destruction of ‘normal’ context removes or shifts the resonances, and

Last Monday Zoe and I hosted our first event for A Wild and Precious Life, our ACE-funded anthology of recovery stories, which sprung from our teaching