Moments of public creation: 1. Walking through a movie set on the streets of Manhattan, where they’re changing the storefront signs out or have put old cars lined up on one side of the street to transform it into some time far in the past. 2. Drawing geometric shapes in full color pencil on the […]
Stumbled upon this rad street art a week or so ago. Check out the artist’s other work at their website. Time to trade lenses. Last year, I was in a writing class where I wrote a short story submission that included an elderly Bengali woman character who talked in circles. When the story went up […]
I found a title for my short story collection this week. It’s often hard for me to find titles — I’m more of a longform writer in the first place, so if short stories are hard, then you can imagine how a three-word title would send me into hours of contemplation. I’ve also been learning […]
Mural on the side of Marcus Books in Oakland, CA “Hi there, miss, what are you reading?” I rarely just sit on the subway. More often, my face is buried in a book or I am scribbling away in an oversized notebook, causing passengers around me to squirm as they try to read my loopy […]
There have been dozens of endings happening as of late. I graduated college, won a few writing prizes, met some unforgettable people, and settled into my first post-grad apartment. I launched an Asian American social justice online magazine called As[I]Am (check it out!). So many congratulations and thanks are in order! But for now, a […]
These posts were written during the summer while I was in Bangladesh, in preparation for the upcoming academic year. Long story short: when I looked back at the archive, I didn’t have the desire or the time to put them up. But now, since I’m coming back to the blog, I decided that some of […]
These posts were written during the summer while I was in Bangladesh, in preparation for the upcoming academic year. Long story short: when I looked back at the archive, I didn’t have the desire or the time to put them up. But now, since I’m coming back to the blog, I decided that some of […]
These posts were written during the summer while I was in Bangladesh, in preparation for the upcoming academic year. Long story short: when I looked back at the archive, I didn’t have the desire or the time to put them up. But now, since I’m coming back to the blog, I decided that some of […]
I’ve been treating this year as if it were my last (on earth, that is, not just my last in college). Sometimes that’s a positive – when it spurs me to try out for new things and make new connections and deflate the excess worry that builds in my chest when I feel overwhelmed. But […]
All I want to do is write. I’ve been feeling that more and more as I’ve sunk back in to the school routine, focusing on lab reports and group meetings and work. But – and I hate to be the cliched writer that always says this – there doesn’t seem to be a lot of […]