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"Where Have You Been?" A Year-Plus Literary Life Recap

A year-plus literary life recap after an extended blog hiatus.

E.P. FloydFebruary 17, 2020mfa creative writing, phd creative writing, antioch university los angeles, aula mfa, writing life, fiction writing, creative nonfiction, creative writing, personal essayComment

How I Fell in Love With Reading, Thanks to My Badass Grandfather

I have a personal essay up this week on Three Guys, One Book about how and when I fell in love—with reading. My essay focuses on who provided me with the books: my late grandpa, who died when I was 8, of esophageal cancer. He was only 52. Even though I didn’t get to spend more than those 8 years with him, he guided and influenced my life so much, most notably because he would bring me books with torn-off covers that he rescued from being pulverized or incinerated at a publishing company in Milwaukee.

The Freedom to Write What I Want

Litbreak Magazine published an excerpt from my novel-in-progress on July 3. Cheetos make an appearance in the piece, which you can read here.

E.P. FloydJuly 4, 2018road trips, road trips in fiction, mfa life, mfa in creative writing, litbreak, litbreak magazine, novel in progress, novel writing, great american road trip, los angeles, writing community, writer, writing, fiction writing, antioch university los angeles, la, l.a., minneapolis, badlands, south dakota, salt lake city, utah, las vegas, santa fe, new mexico, where'd you go bernadette, maria semple, wild, cheryl strayed, lolita, vladimir nabokov, the canterbury tales, geoffrey chaucer, she's come undone, wally lamb, into the wild, john krakauer, flaming iguanas, erika lopez, the fault in our stars, john green, the goldfinch, donna tartt, the secret life of walter mitty, james thurber, jack kerouac, on the road, hunter s. thompson, fear and loathing in las vegas Comments

Reading Lists and Laundry Lists and How Spring Is The Busiest

Oops, I forgot to blog last week!

E.P. FloydMay 15, 2018reading list, mfa, MFA students, low-residency MFA, antioch university los angeles, motherhood, mothers dayComment