Have been making my way through the Word-by-Word archives. Jordan is a fantastic, empathetic interviewer. She exudes such warmth, passion, and love of the written word. Yesterday, I listened to her with Louise Erdrich when I was eating my lunch.
Found this gorgeous essay at AGNI: What I Know, What I Don’t by Kerrie Kemperman. It has this absolutely fantastic line in it: I was raised to be not a woman, but a farm girl.
Have made three new writer friends in the past couple of weeks and added them to my links: