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
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