The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath On the Road by Jack Kerouac Everything by Hemingway except A Moveable Feast The Night…
Posts Published by Jodi Chromey
Revisiting Ruby Vroom
I like to think Soul Coughing is a band I discovered all on my own. That I wasn’t turned on to them by a friend or because they were influenced by or influenced some other…
Appealing to prurient interests
Awhile back I was interviewed by Nerve for their feature “Sex Advice from Extremely Tall Women.” I will warn you before you click the link that there’s not so much advice as there is talk…
Two discoveries I made today (plus two bonus discoveries)
First, this afternoon I discovered I cannot write about music without headphones. It’s probably a procrastinatory crutch, but I tried and failed miserably. Something about wearing headphones makes the music more immediate, easier to talk…
Re-evaluating Personal Artifacts: A new project I may or may not abandon in a month
For the past few months, I’ve had a few ideas floating around in my head. I don’t even know if they’re actual ideas so much as figments of possible ideas. Here’s how it all started….
My American Uneasiness
Why are you unhappy? That’s the question thirty-something midwestern Zeke Pappas asks his subjects. He’s gathering answers for his magnum opus, a study of American Unhappiness. When the novel opens we’re nearly finished with the…