How To Fail at PlayStation Without Really Trying—The Hatchet Method of Parenting—Brassica or ‘Braska?—Good Apples—Bad People—Good Coffee Shops—The Perks of Being Social AF

Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes was born in Harrisburg, PA and has a BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University and an MFA from George Mason University. She has appeared in The Rumpus, Cartridge Lit, Crab Fat Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, and cahoodaloodaling. She is the blog editor of The Collagist. She works as an editor. Her name is a line of iambic pentameter.

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The Smug Buds

Liz’s Book Picks

The Classroom by Dana Diehl and Melissa Goodrich

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Notes

• Susquehanna University, Creative Writing Major
• Educational Computer Games: Reader Rabbit, Treasure Mountain, Gizmos and Gadgets, Ancient Empires, Oregon Trail, Operation Neptune
• Frivolous Time-Wasters: Curse of Monkey Island, Night in the Woods, Rusty Lake
• Super Mario Bros. 3 by Alyse Knorr
• Basically the same as chess
• The Lobster and The Favourite directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
• Levar Burton Reads
• Homecoming
• Time Travel Novels: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
• Child Raising Manuals: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, The Cay by Theodore Taylor, Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Brassica
• NPR does apples
• Oranges are green and other citrus truths
• Toliver is my beagle
• Teaching my kids about bad people through the power of Netflix
• The Bad Person Threshold?
• Liz’s rec for teaching your kids about bad people
• Winners go to writing camp
• The Writing Center at GMU
• Fall for the Book at GMU
• Coffee Shops in Northern Virginia that aren’t Starbucks: De Clieu Coffee and Sandwich, Cafe Kindred, BeanGood! The Coffee Pub
• My Waterloo

Poetry