Speak Out! recent blogs
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By Hillary Harvey 09/04/08
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My Conversation with Laurie Anderson
By Sparrow 08/21/08
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"Blogging for Blood Cancer" event
By Puja Thomson 08/01/08
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By Sparrow 07/06/08
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Pretty Much the Most Important Thing
By Bethany Saltman 06/23/08
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How do I Assess Risks versus Benefits of Treatment Options?- 3
By Puja Thomson 06/16/08
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By Sparrow 05/23/08
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Dora Who?: On Raising a Weirdo
By Bethany Saltman 04/25/08
Books
Book Reviews: Varieties of Disturbance
Largely devoid of setting, definitive narrative structure, character development, and other familiar conventions, these 57 stories defy easy categorization.
Book Reviews: Varieties of DisturbanceLargely devoid of setting, definitive narrative structure, character development, and other familiar conventions, these 57 stories defy easy categorization. | 
Book Reviews: Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from HereThe epigraph, a quote attributed to Heraclitus, best captures the essence of these essays: “You could not step twice into the same river, for other waters are ever flowing on to you.” | 
Subversive ComplicationsThe praise her first book received couldn’t match Kakutani’s exuberance over Eat the Document. Spiotta’s “stunning new novel,” the Times critic proclaimed, possessed “the staccato ferocity of a Joan Didion essay and the historical resonance and razzle-dazzle language of a Don DeLillo novel.” | 
Dana Spiotta: _Eat the Document_ ExcerptFive state borders, and then she was handing over the cash for the room—anonymous, cell-like, quiet. |