Intersections

I've been reading lots of entries to writing prizes in 2017

* Robertson and Olympic.

This year I am co-judging the journalism prize of the Pen Center USA Literary Awards, with writers Maria Bustillos and Edward Humes. I was also one of the co-judges of the inaugural Christopher Isherwood Prize in autobiographical prose at the L.A. Times Festival of Books.

These tasks have helped me confront my own writing, and challenged my relationship to prose as a reader and editor. I've also had a glimpse of the complexity of making an editorial decision with other minds, in disparate places, and under deadline pressure.

Fidget spinners: Don't even know who to send this to

A brilliant piece of performance art. These devices are so so satisfying when in use.