The Recovering Creative: Jonesing for Control?
An ongoing series about improving my beliefs (and understanding what, exactly they are) about writing, money, spirituality and how it all fits into life. Truth: I’m not religious about prayer. Bigger...
View ArticleThe Recovering Creative: Mixed up about Money
I grew up Jewish in a house where we did not pray. It was, like, not in our religion. My mother was very superstitious. In a way, knocking on wood three times was her faith. She very much wanted her...
View ArticleThe Recovering Creative: Self Debt, Doubt and Dough
There might always be a part of me that is obsessed with TV shows where a fix is “revealed” and everything is tidied up nicely—at least on the air. I’m not talking about a story that’s truly lit from...
View Article“The Writing Class That’s Like Therapy” With Lynda Barry
Have you ever read any of Lynda Barry’s books? You should. Really. The Greatest of Marlys is one of them. I have Andrew Tonkovich, editor of the Santa Monica Review and host of KPFK’s Biblocracy to...
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