Dear Fury, Poetry and I needed a time-out, a mutually-agreed break-up. Call it conscious uncoupling, if you want. Writing no longer felt therapeutic or rewarding...
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DEAR FURY #13: “Fury is confusing herself with her good manners!”
Dear Fury, I am a newbie writer who has tried many careers before coming back to the one Ms. James suggested for me in the...

Dear Fury #3: It’s bullshit to think parenthood is, by definition, a career-killer.
Dear Fury, I am thirty. And I want to have a baby. But everyone tells me that I should wait until I’ve published a book...

Dear Fury #2: Besides, it’s that wounded look in our partners’ eyes that reminds us we’re all despicable people at heart.
Dear Fury, I’m a writer who’s about to marry a non-writer. My female writer-friends are urging me to get a prenup. Two of these friends...

Dear Fury #1: “For a slimy little fucker like that . . .”
Dear Fury, I’ve been super hot for a guy in my poetry workshop (MFA, if you want to know). My question is: is the workshop...