Mentioned this to a few of you, and wanted to extend a warm invite to our “comics crew” (name TBD) conversation + draw jam: Wed, Nov 9 from 5 – 6 pm, Dining Commons, 8th Floor.  You’re welcome to join…

Sorry this is messy. I can add alt text if you want, let me know. Sources, in addition to S-town and Myka: Kurt Vonnegut: The Shapes of Stories  ‘How to Read Now,’ by Elaine Castillo (NYT review, mentions “expected reader”…

Confession: I still have Tribe Called Quest in my head, days later, now remixed with Selena (and Dilson Hernandez and Ben Grosscup’s No More Sacrifice Zones, but that’s…off-topic).    What is the relationship between music and memory? Reading Go Ahead…

Possible working titles (for the whole comic – help me choose, and please please suggest ideas!) You pronounce the quotes Ordinary / Extraordinary A gay trade unionist’s guide to Geneva or to cruising sites across the 20th Century? Thanks! *…

Are all writers gorgons (Anolik) or monsters (White)? Sorry, all “real writers”? (White: “Would I do it over again? Yes, since it is one of my strongest pieces of writing—and that’s the kind of monster every real writer is.”) What…

Confession, first: Whenever I find an instance where Black isn’t capitalized, I want to take a pen and copy edit my library book. Yes, I know it was written before June 2020. I want to email the author, dead or…

* Was it union activism or gay cruising at the opera? Red scare or Lavender? President Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450, in 1953, which effectively banned LGBTQ+ people from federal employment? Between 5,000 and tens of thousands of gay workers lost…