Author: Lara Avery

This is adapted from an email I recently sent to an old friend.   I had an incredible workshop leader a couple years back that was a bit precious about his approach to writing. He was all about guarding his time with his "craft" at all costs, protecting it from the demands of the market, insisting… Continue reading Art and the Market →

Some friends and I got together virtually to write our "real time" reactions as we read Ben Lerner's The Topeka School. As native Topekans and graduates of Lerner's high school, we thought it would be fun to explore our reading experiences of a book set in our childhood home, lauded by The New York Times Book… Continue reading The Topeka School →

When I longed for my future, I never thought about a fixed name. I couldn't see myself as mother or writer or wife, more just floating through different atmospheres, a sensory montage of days that begin by waking up in a high-ceilinged, long-windowed room in an old building, ending with the slow carousel of a neighborhood as… Continue reading A New Internet →