The Upper Midwest: a reflection
Essays, Family, History, IdentityJessica McCraryculture, Fargo, Making a Murderer, Michigan, pop culture, Television, upper midwest, Wisconsin
Concordia // A Quilt for Colin
Travel journal: 2011: Hemingway's house in Cuba
Essays, History, The Wide WorldJessica McCraryCaribbean, Cuba, grad school, Hemingway, island living, travel, travelogues, writers
Grey Area: A True War Story.
Essays, History, History and Memory, On WritingJessica McCraryfiction, inspiration, memory, nonfiction, on writing, truth, war
On my work: Translating liberal arts skills to a resume, working in college career services
A Shameless study in plot and character
Stages of Stranded: 10.5 hours commuting home in Atlanta's epic snow failure
Essays, Happening, PoliticsJessica McCraryAtlanta, Atlanta snow, danger, reflection, survival, traffic, transit, transportation
A Year's Goals: 25 to 26
Essays, On WritingJessica McCrarycrime fiction, goals, inspiration, life, life right now, modern quilting, quilting, running, writing
"My main job is to tell stories, and to be a storyteller."
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules for Writing
The Proverbial Floodgates
I wish I'd written this brilliant commentary...
Strange and beautiful and slightly insane
Just sit at a typewriter and bleed.
The Year.
"For me, the plot is the least intriguing part of a book" - and other thoughts on the process of writing
Finding jobs, finding meaning, in everyday work
Born on Inauguration Day: Thoughts On America
The Year of My First Novel
Christoph Waltz explains his love, and mine, for Tarantino's dialogue
