I hate when people make fun of Cleveland, and I really hate when journalists are too lazy to come up with an original lede. So this summer’s coverage of the Republican National Convention, which never failed to use the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire as a laugh line, had me in a near-constant state of rage. […]
Author Archives: Sally
“Losing Lakewood” and the Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook
I wrote an essay for the Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook, out this month from Belt Publishing, and it was recently published online. I’ll be reading it at the book’s launch party on June 22 at Market Garden Brewery — if you’re in the Cle, come on out. Tweet
An Unnatural Mother
I wrote an essay about Elena Ferrante and motherhood, and the Rumpus was kind enough to publish it. Tweet
Maven Is Here!
You might not have heard from me in a while, and by a while, I mean about a year and a half. I’ve been busy, mostly with this: Maven is a women’s healthcare app that I helped launch, from its initial just-an-idea phases to its $2.2 million-funded reality. Want to hear more? Here’s New York […]
Krysta Rodriguez and Mike Read “Chatbot”
Another one. Mike writes; I edit; and this time, Krysta Rodriguez reads. Tweet
Michael Emerson Reads “Light Show”
Mike writes; I edit; Michael Emerson reads. Tweet
Half Wollstonecraft, Half LOLcats: Talking with Caitlin Moran
In 2011, the London Times columnist Caitlin Moran published “How to Be a Woman,” a book that combined personal essays with an outline of the state of—and need for—feminism today. The book was a best-seller in England, and, by the summer of 2012, in America as well, thanks in large part to Moran’s brutally funny […]
Pancakes in Ohio
I was going to write something last week about the New York Times “This Land” series on Elyria, Ohio, a city just east of where I grew up. It was going to be a brilliant essay about Americana porn, and East Coast condescension, and an eagerness to see poverty and struggle as a somehow noble […]
Illness and Fireflies
In November of 2008, three days after she was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer, Susan Gubar underwent a debulking operation. The procedure entails the removal of part of the cancer—and often several of the organs that are in contact with it—and, as Gubar writes in her new book, “Memoir of a Debulked Woman,” it’s the […]
April Flowers?
Early in the spring, I was admiring the flowers on one particularly beautiful Carroll Gardens block when I realized: this is weird. These flowers shouldn’t be here yet; the trees shouldn’t be so green and full. And my husband, cursed with seasonal allergies, shouldn’t be sneezing this much already. So what was going on? Mild […]