Michelle Herman's most recent books are Dog, a short novel, and The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood, a collection of personal essays. She is a transplanted New Yorker who has been living in Ohio since 1988. Educated in the New York City public schools, Brooklyn College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is Professor of English at Ohio State, where she also edits the literary magazine The Journal with poet Kathy Fagan and directs the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Freshman Common Book Program. She is at work on a new novel and a second collection of essays, of which the piece she reads here, Performance, is one.
(Note: re the 80s singer/songwriter Jamie Sims, whom Herman writes about in Performance, whose songs Wild Moose Party and (How to Keep Your) Husband Happy were "underground hits": Jamie's album with her band, The Cosmopolitans, has just been reissued. See http://www.myspace.com/thecosmopolitans and hear the music!)
Michelle Herman's most recent books are Dog, a short novel, and The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood, a collection of personal essays. She is a transplanted New Yorker who has been living in Ohio since 1988. Educated in the New York City public schools, Brooklyn College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is Professor of English at Ohio State, where she also edits the literary magazine The Journal with poet Kathy Fagan and directs the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Freshman Common Book Program. She is at work on a new novel and a second collection of essays, of which the piece she reads here, Performance, is one.
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