Ancient Grains Archive
Living With Adult Acne
Ancient Grains, Beauty
Sep 17, 2013
For me, puberty brought with it sweaty hands, excessive angst and a drastically misguided faith in my poetic talents, but for the most part no skin issues. Instead, my face erupted with spots as soon as I’d crossed the threshold into adulthood, and in the years since I’ve devoted an embarrassing amount
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Failing A Course In Miracles
Ancient Grains, Writing
Sep 17, 2013
This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at
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Kimberly McLeod’s Open Letter in Ebony
Ancient Grains, LGBT
Sep 17, 2013
Here is your generous and delightful lesbian news for the day. Kimberly McLeod, who is magnificent, penned a lovely letter to LGBT celebrities of varying degrees of outness in Ebony (An aside. Do you follow Ebony on Twitter? You should. They have an excellent Twitter
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Pink Shoes: Sex, Gender and Raising Triplets
Ancient Grains, Family
Sep 17, 2013
Sex and gender have always been an intrinsic part of my thoughts about my children; as soon as I found out I was carrying triplets I hoped they were not all the same sex, because I wanted to experience parenting both and had no intention of going through pregnancy again after the havoc one
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A Chat With Rainbow Rowell About Love and Censorship
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 17, 2013
When Rainbow Rowell's first YA novel Eleanor & Park came out this spring, people loved it. After John Green gave it a glowing (shimmering, really. Incandescent, even) review in the New York Times, even more people loved it. It was an Amazon Best Book of the Month, a New
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Literary Trysts It Gives Me Great Joy To Think About: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 17, 2013
So. As you may or may not know, Wilde went on a speaking tour of America in 1882, and it was marvelous (Henry James didn't care for it; Henry James called him a "tenth-rate card" and an "unclean beast"; Henry James can go suck an egg). He lectured and gave interviews and
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Shall We Burn Our Diaries?
Ancient Grains, Writing
Sep 17, 2013
The glorious Rae Earl on what to do with one's teenage detritus:
As a lifelong hypochondriac, I have had a will since I was seven. Its conditions have changed over the years (I don't think my brother wants my Smurf collection any more), but one codicil has ...Read More
John Brown’s Biggest Fan
Ancient Grains, Interviews
Sep 16, 2013
“Nobody understands me,” Norman says over tea at a crowded Barnes and Noble. We’re nearing the end of our conversation, and the fervor with which Norman had previously discussed his politics and explained his one-man show about the life of the controversial abolitionist John Brown has subsided. “But of course nobody understands
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