As It Were - Things that I find alternately sinister and amusing

About Me

Ryan Brown is a 20 year old female who enjoys witty retorts, long train rides, and black coffee. She is sexually attracted to writing talent and dislikes bio statements that provide actually useful information.

She is also given to unnecessarily subdividing her life, and therefore blogs about her travels at a separate location:
Ryan Goes Places

All comments--loving, hating, and otherwise--should be directed to rlb30 at duke.edu

From the Archives

My Weekend as a Freshman
Ryan at the DNC
To the Crushes of Christmas Past
Story Time
Where's My Neck Brace?
On July 4ths

My Real(er) Writing

Learning How to Elect a President
Denver Post column, Sept. 2008

Things We Have Forgotten
short story, February 2008 (p. 6)

At the End of the World
short story, December 2006

Never Enough
creative nonfiction (excerpt), April 2008

Things that I find alternately sinister and amusing

When you turn to the back of a novel and there is a short paragraph detailing the life and accomplishments of the writer, and then you turn the page again to find a blurb of similar length detailing the intricate history of the font used in the book.
The Woody Allen film Manhattan