Gail Konop Baker's work is published or forthcoming in Literary Mama, Talking River Review, The Potomac, Mota, The Danforth Review, Madison Magazine, Yankee Pot Roast, Wisconsin Trails, Xanadu, Womansong, Pudding Magazine, Glass Review, and an anthology funded by the Ohio Arts Council.
Tolstoy, Fitzgerald, Woolf, Salinger, Grace Paley among MANY others
Favorite Books
The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, The Catcher in the Rye, To the Lighthouse, anything by Grace Paley, selected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Operating Instructions, The Things They Carried, anything by Flannery O'Connor, The Secret History, Interpreter of Maladies, Saturday, Sylvia Plath, John Cheever, The Year of Magical Thinking
What I'm Reading
Crime and Punishment and a thriller by Barry Eisler
After four intense days taking our daughter to college and one day home to wash clothes and then 7 hours up to Madeline Island in Lake Superior and three days of outdoor bliss...
I know the word cancer scares people. It scares me. But that is part of the reason I wrote this memoir, to try to de-stigmatize cancer for other survivors.
I had my 2 and a half year check-up on Tuesday and while I don't like getting MRI's, not only is it freaky to lie face down and get sucked into that narrow tube and feel ice-cold potentially
A married couple I know told me (and several other couples at a cocktail party) that they have sex every day... sometimes twice a day or more. They are not newly married.
I needed something to write on yesterday. Something other than my computer which has morphed into a devilish link to all sorts of juicy, distractable distractions that might respond to me now.
