Author Archives: mkpheartsnyc

Oblivion: Maybe the Only Movie Madder At Women Than Tom Cruise Is

Posted on April 22, 2013

The Previews: I am fed up with futuristic postapocalyptic worlds where men get to do cool things like get juiced up to break into Elyria and race cars and crash cars and women get….rescued, mostly? In fights with other women? … Continue reading →

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MAD MEN! Season 6, episodes 1-2, and 3.

Posted on April 15, 2013

Last week I was off my game, so this week you get double summary/analysis/repeated instructions for Pete to Shut. Up. My Big Picture interpretation of the series so far is that season 1-3 were Don Draper’s Ascension, and Seasons 4-6 … Continue reading →

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Writing on Charlotte Bronte at The American Scholar!

Posted on April 5, 2013

If you’ve got a few minutes for some literary nostalgia today, please check out my new piece online at The American Scholar!    . . .She wrote the poem when she was only a little younger than I was when … Continue reading →

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#TheWeekly #12 (Blame Spring Break Edition)

Posted on March 25, 2013

AKSHULLY  I worked super hard on my spring break! Well, the second-fifth days of it. I got myself up on the regular, wrote, edited, and made art. Which I’m just about reconciled to the fact that I do on the … Continue reading →

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#TheWeekly #11 Folder Art edition

Posted on March 14, 2013

What I do in class

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The AWP 2013 Thoughts Post

Posted on March 12, 2013

I’m sure there will be a jillion of these as the 11,000 writers and writing teachers head home from the conference in Boston, but I wanted to collect mine as well. As I said in an email to my girl … Continue reading →

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#TheWeekly AWP Edition (#10)

Posted on March 9, 2013

So, this week was a rush of ALL THE ACTIVITIES. I attended panels on multiple narratives, on memoir beyond the self, on illustrated memoir, on hating your writing, on women’s fiction and how it’s an awful lot like human fiction, … Continue reading →

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Five People Not To Be In your MFA Workshop

Posted on March 1, 2013

Nothing personal, people who have been in my various MFA workshops. You are all brilliant, and have perfect judgment about what to say and not say as, obviously, do I.  J/K I have been all of these people too.  5. … Continue reading →

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#TheWeekly #9

Posted on February 28, 2013

New jam! I found these old books in the $1 section of the Friends of the Ithaca Library book sale – commonly mispronounced words, music terms, synonyms, etiquette, and I’ve been going to town on them marker collage style.

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#TheWeekly #8

Posted on February 21, 2013

Since I’ve been in this Art of the Book class, I’ve become obsessed with folding books and letting my doodle tendencies run a little wild. Case in point:    

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