Archive - Writing Sandwich

If You’re Not Writing Something That Makes You Uncomfortable, Start Over: A Conversation with Paula Bomer

CH: In The Stalker, you create a raw portrait of a predator, Robert Doughten Savile (who goes by Doughty).

Jun 23 •

Caroline Hagood

Pre-Order Goblin Mode & Thoughts on a Shifting World for Writers and Why I Keep Going

Hang in there...

Jun 4 •

Caroline Hagood

May 2025

"Foster Care and Loss Taught Me How Everything Can Be Taken": A Conversation with Lisa Marie Basile

In your poetry book Saint Of, there’s a longing for hybridity, for being not merely one thing but all of the things at once—and all as a part of a…

May 22 •

Caroline Hagood

April 2025

"Mother and sex and death and breath and water": A Conversation with Amie Souza Reilly

Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays uses the story of your menacing neighbors and the bestiary format as structures that enable you to explore ideas…

Apr 22 •

Caroline Hagood

March 2025

Jason says to write a new poem, but this week colleges receive a list of words we can no longer say if we want federal funding.

Mar 8 •

Caroline Hagood

February 2025

AI and the Question of Human Writing

First, Some News:

Feb 15 •

Caroline Hagood

January 2025

Martin Luther King Day & What I Will Be Doing to Move Forward

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jan 20 •

Caroline Hagood

On the Feral Creativity of Motherhood and the Defanging of Nightbitch

The central criticism of Marielle Heller’s movie Nightbitch (in which mother turns into dog, in case you haven’t already heard the chatter) is that it…

Jan 10 •

Caroline Hagood

December 2024

Books I've Blurbed This Year: Your Holiday Reading List

[Photo by Arif Riyanto]

Dec 20, 2024 •

Caroline Hagood

“I Don’t Like Art That Feels Well-Behaved”: A Conversation with Joanna Fuhrman

Joanna Fuhrman’s new poetry book Data Mind draws unexpected, wildly surreal connections between various overwhelming, data-heavy entities we face daily…

Dec 1, 2024 •

Caroline Hagood

November 2024

On Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance & Rewriting the Narrative of Aging Women

Some News:Thanks for reading Writing Sandwich!

Nov 8, 2024 •

Caroline Hagood

October 2024

Sally Rooney and the Problem of "Lady" Authorship

I’m far from the first person to read Sally Rooney’s new novel (not even so new since a month is eternal by Interweb standards), Intermezzo. Hot takes…

Oct 23, 2024 •

Caroline Hagood

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