Articles by Elizabeth Eslami
May 12, 2010
Elegy for a Stillborn Story 9
If we’re doing it right, the story will change us. It will die in our arms, and we will press our lips to it and breathe an idea back in. We will stand among hundreds of our stories gathered in piles at our feet, and we won’t know if we’re in a cemetery or a nursery.
March 18, 2010
Traveling By Faith: Thoughts on Being an Iranian American Writer 7
A writer is like a goose inside a cloud. You fly by moving your fingers across a keyboard, hoping to write your way out of confusion and into something that makes sense to you and others.
