All articles from Woman of Letters
"Writing is not a race"
If you spend any time around established literary writers, you’ll be subjected to baffling advice about how it’s important not to pursue publication.
On reading one of the Hindu national epics
Longtime readers might remember that for much of 2024, I was writing about my experiences reading an unabridged translation of the Mahabharata, which is one of the two foundational Hindu epics.
The Wayback Machine
In 2010, I moved to Oakland, where I started spending every evening with a friend of mine named Brian—a former college roommate.
The Fountainhead
Back in the year 1998, there was a thirteen-year-old boy who loved to read.
The end of my American literature era
To research my New Yorker story piece, I had to read a lot of literary biographies.