Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon I’ve had this in my library for a long, long time, but never really had the inclination to read it until I was going to write a short story about an army woman in Afghanistan and needed research. I’ve already read “Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army” by Kayla Williams, but I barely remember anything from that. That was a personal memoir and very anti-military. This is more of an ensemble cast or narrative non-fiction. A report on the first women integrated into…
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You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Be an Author, But It Helps Jason Pargin
Let me see if I can get my thoughts out coherently. I have a lot of thoughts. The other day I listened to a podcast that took away hope for my career. Depresh Mode by John Moe interviews celebrities under the lens of mental health and illness — how it’s served them, how it’s hindered them, having a career with those kinds of struggles. He’s had Jamie Lee Curtis, Comedian Dana Gould, Rachel Smythe (creator of Lore Olympus), and Patton Oswalt. But what I want to talk about is Jason Pargin a.k.a. David Wong, author of the “John Dies at the End” series, the “Zoey Ashe” series, former editor-in-chief of…
