Writing – Page 3 – Paul Baerman

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Writing – Page 3 – Paul Baerman

Art & emergency

After the 2016 election I kept asking myself how artists should respond in time of political crisis. I sat down with singer-songwriter-satirist Roy Zimmerman the next summer to kick it around—he sure had known what to do, but then he had been doing it all along. Popping a demagogue’s balloon was nothing new for Roy.… Continue reading Art & emergency

The Writerly Life

It means waking at 2 AM because you’re trembling with a thought you dreamed. Taping three-foot long sheets of newsprint over the walls of your study (even across the door) so you can keep track of a narrative. Scouting a cafe with superior air conditioning for those 100-degree plus summer mornings (mornings!) when you just… Continue reading The Writerly Life

“Ladies of the Pack”: Werewolves, or What It Means to be Human

There’s Cassandra, who hopes to become an IRS accountant and just wants everyone to get along; Sunny, who used to train assassins but now just wishes for a little furball with fangs; and their hostess, Allegra, who craves revenge for her being mortal.