Basement News
Erica McKeenAuthor Erica McKeen shares updates on her publications, events, and how she's getting on in the world.
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Starting Fresh, Again
Dear Reader,
Most of the time what my writing career looks like is me at my desk—not at a café because the music is too loud, or at the library because other people’s keyboards are too loud, or the patio of my own apartment because the res...
On the Lip of Winter, Some Warmth
What they don’t tell you about your second book is that it will be just as hard to write as your first, or harder, because now there are expectations and hopes a little larger than before, and because now you’re older and in the way of thin...
Summer Languor and Loneliness
Dear Reader,
Summer has arrived and passed halfway with rolling heatwaves, well-earned languor, a rising wordcount on my third manuscript, the expected stupor accompanying synchronous online classes, and loneliness.
More and more it seems...
Home Bodies in Winter Weather
Dear Reader,
The weather in January was all over the place, inconsistent, sloppy in both the mud it produced along the sidewalks and in its intentions—the narrative it presented in terms of what kind of winter we would have in Vancouver: w...
Welcome to Basement News
Hey, I’m Erica, and this is Basement News. I’m the author of the novel TEAR (Invisible Publishing, 2022) and the strange hybrid book that is essentially a novel, provisionally titled IN THE CICADA SUMMER (W. W. Norton & Co., 2024). I’m also...
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Erica is a Canadian fiction writer. She is the author of IN THE CICADA SUMMER (W. W. Norton & Co., 2024) and TEAR (Invisible Publishing, 2022).
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