![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yh5aZO9azW0/SSdNqdjtdJI/AAAAAAAAS-w/v2FaFVo5X4g/s200/link.gif)
One paragraph from her entry:
Books of prose I recently finished that I keep thinking about are Ed Park's hilariously-and-sadly-perfect-for-our-times Personal Days. I also loved Kelly Link's Magic For Beginners. And on the serious side, Simone Weil's essays Waiting for God.[read on]Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy and Human Dark with Sugar, and co
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Yh5aZO9azW0/SSdNXyvxifI/AAAAAAAAS-o/3drOOGtKs4A/s200/Shaughnessy2.gif)
Read some of Brenda Shaughnessy's poems online at Boston Review and listen to others at Salon.com.
Writers Read: Brenda Shaughnessy.
--Marshal Zeringue