Blogs about: Dorothy Allison
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Public silence, private terror
Throughout my life somebody has always tried to set the boundaries of who and what I will be allowed to be: if working class, an intellectual, upwardly mobile type who knows her place, or at least the… more →
This Wheel of Many Parts
Rape in Fiction
wrote 1 day ago: The scariest moment is always just before you start. Stephen King Sex is a loaded topic in American … more →
To the Graduating Seniors
wrote 2 days ago: For those who read this blog regularly, it will come as no surprise that I believe I have the greate … more →
Allison on Language
wrote 1 week ago: The specificity of the language is sometimes necessary because quite often the subjects being discus … more →
Read it Queer: Pride Month Book List
wrote 1 week ago: A few years ago I began my personal tradition of reading only LGBT books during the month of June … more →
Thought for Day 13: Embrace the Waste
wrote 1 week ago: I don’t know about other MFA fiction graduates, but I think the most daunting thing about not … more →
Fiction is a pi...
wrote 2 weeks ago: Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. Dorothy Allison … more →
Cousin Butch (River of Names)
wrote 2 weeks ago: “I loved my Cousin Butch. He had this big old head, pale thin hair, and enormous, watery eyes. … more →
This Is a Southern Story
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Over twenty years ago, Dorothy Allison gained her reputation as a powerful feminist writer from the … more →
I just read this . . .
wrote 3 weeks ago: “I am my mama’s daughter, her shadow on the earth, the blood thinned down a little so that I a … more →
4.11.2013 Thursday's Quote
wrote 1 month ago: Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something … more →
10 Books Guaranteed to Make You Cry
wrote 2 months ago: This week, we read about a study, recently published in PLOS ONE, in which researchers found that … more →
it's the weekend
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Consider the Salmon
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wrote 2 months ago: In The Unicorn, one of Iris Murdoch’s characters drops the following into a mundane conversation: “H … more →
2013 Over the Rainbow List: 84 LGBT Books
wrote 3 months ago: By Paige Cohen The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Assoc … more →
Secrets (Week 2, Days 5 & 6)
wrote 4 months ago: Day 5 was really difficult because I had to write about all of my secrets. I started with the bigge … more →
Poem Saturday: 2
wrote 5 months ago: Oops, I almost forgot about poem Saturday! Here is a quote from my girl Dorothy Allison, and my poet … more →
Today's Foodism: The Enemy is Hunger and the Battleground is Your Stomach
wrote 5 months ago: Image courtesy of Suat Eman / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food— … more →
Chicago Humanities Festival
wrote 6 months ago: Illustration by Sierra Nicole Wilson. Dorothy Allison — November 3 “By the time I was 10 I ha … more →
Just bleed
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wrote 6 months ago: There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway Unfo … more →
