Looking for something spooky this Halloween season? Windowshopping after dark in Oslo might just suffice. Near the corner of Uranienborgveien and Parkveien, across the street from Nomaden, the travel bookstore, is a storefront marked Kunst Handel, Norwegian for art dealer. In the daytime, it would be easy to walk past…
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Adventum
Readers! I've got good news... In August I was hired as an Editorial Assistant by Adventum , a literary magazine specializing in creative nonfiction, with an emphasis on wilderness and outdoor adventures, as well as nature-inspired Haiku. It's the perfect fit for me, and I'm proud to be part of the…
Wherein Lies my Value: An Exercise
In 10 minutes, define your personal value. What makes you valuable? The most valuable thing I do each day is write. Something. Anything. My words are my currency. Though I suppose standard rules of economics don't apply--I have an endless supply of words, and it is rare for anyone to…
All the things!
There is a meme that has made the obligatory number of rounds on the interwebs and is now lodged, probably forever, in my life. This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult on the wonderful and hilarious blog Hyperbole and A Half . It is the story of one woman’…
Forge: Issue 6.1
It's not really a secret. As an aspiring writer, the desire for success (just a smidge of it... just a single acceptance letter at a time...) is immense, but the odds of it happening are so very small. However, earlier this summer I received that smidge from a publication called…
The Writing Life
"The greatest miracle for me was getting started. I feel - and the anxiety is still vivid to me - that I might easily have failed before I began." ~ V.S. Naipaul, 2001 Nobel Lecture Less than two weeks ago, I graduated from Lesley University with my MFA in Creative…
What I alone love at all...
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. Annie Dillard What do I alone love at all? The moment in my loneliness when someone reaches out and calls me friend.…
Litteraturhuset Series: David Vann
While the Opera House was drowning in the agitated mania of Oslo's teenage Justin Bieber fans last Wednesday night, a few dozen literature lovers gathered in the basement of Oslo's Litteraturhuset to see someone else. David Vann , author of Legend of a Suicide and Caribou Island , was visiting to talk…