Writing Interests

Aesthetic

• High brow, low brow, mid brow, unibrow (mostly mid to uni)
• Irony, both redemptive and humorous (don’t mind some dead irony now and again)
• Humor (dark, sarcasm, satire, slapstick, dry)
• Diversity (can’t be all white people…)
• Spiritualism (dashes of religion)
• Family issues (dysfunctional only!)
• Latino, Hispanic, Spanish influences (whatever it is we mutts are called)
• Parenthetical references (though I rarely use them in my writing)

Lit I like

• Literary, Pop, and mainstream
• Short stories
• Short novels (shnovels, or novellas)
• Satire, Humor, Dark Humor
• Magic Realism
• Historical
• Sci-Fi
• Non-fiction: anything having to do with beating the odds
• Anything by García Márquez, Saunders, Fitzgerald, Atwood, Vonnegut, Twain, Didion, Marie Howe, Dorianne Laux, Steve Almond, Pam Houston, Kellie Wells

Lit I write

• Literary and pop fiction writer fixated on short stories and novels
• Itinerant journalist
• Lifelong memoirist
• Aspiring essayist
• Pathetic poet