Reflecting on my growth as a writer
Eliana Marcu/Staff
If you’re a writer like me, you know. It’s never easy to reread your previous work. And without cringing? Yeah, that’s pretty impossible.
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All art is quite useful
Work in Progress
When I think about the timeline of my writing career, I draw blanks instead of all the memories that should have cemented in my mind the fact that I am a writer. And yet, I still don’t feel like a writer. But I’m always writing. I’m writing right now.
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Portuguese daydreams
Work in Progress
I was sitting in Portuguese 103 one dreary winter day last semester when it occurred to me — and this thought was not in English, but in the Portuguese-Spanish cocktail pseudo-dialect known as “Portunhol” — that I was, in that moment, a visitor to the Portuguese language.
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UC Berkeley to receive about $400K for Mark Twain Project
UC Berkeley is one of four institutions set to receive over $400,000 each in surcharge funds collected from the Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Program.
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Only the grammar
“You get to the point, eventually, that you see only the grammar.”
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How I became a Nhà Viết Văn
When I was a little girl, about 8 or 9, I stumbled across a yellowed, pocketbook version of L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables,” a story about a spirited, redheaded orphan. I fell in love with Anne Shirley, whose good intentions and misadventures charmed me. Her romantic and poetic voice
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