by Andi | May 5, 2015 | Andi's Book, Slavery, Written and Wrought
This afternoon, I am tucking myself into the underground irony of sunlight in the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. This endeavor – this research about Brackett’s Farm in Louisa County, Virginia – fits in that space,... by Andi | May 2, 2015 | Book Recommendations, Written and Wrought
You know how you sometimes just like somebody from the get-go. That’s how I feel about Erica Wright, and that feeling only deepened when I read her advice to writers at the end of this interview. I think you’re going to like her (and want to buy her... by Andi | May 1, 2015 | God's Whisper, Slavery, Written and Wrought
Many poets are not poets for the same reasons many religious [people] are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the [person] or... by Andi | Apr 28, 2015 | Written and Wrought
When I was dating a man who had a serious alcohol addiction, when I was letting myself be called names and coming home to find him passed out and unable to be awakened, when I was crying every night because I could not find my way out, I did some less than stellar... by Andi | Apr 25, 2015 | Book Recommendations, Written and Wrought
As you would expect, as soon as I saw the title of Melissa Pierson’s new book, I was hooked. Someone who has a dog and writes about dogs . . . as a woman with for dogs of her own, I was in. Melissa is kind and thoughtful, too. I plan on reading all of her...