Podcast
“A Lovely Wallpaper” is a podcast about learning poetry by memory.
Each episode features an interview and a guided memorization.
Guests have included: Susie Boyt, Jos Kley, Catherine Robson, Susan
Angelo, Peter Orner, Ishion Hutchinson, Marie Darrieussecq, Kate Lebo,
Andrew Tonkavich, Talon Knight, Lee Ann Brown, and Lucy Sante.
Poems have included works by: Blake, Bishop, Shakespeare, Joyce, Rilke,
Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, Berners, and Apollinaire.
Listen on:
Chapbooks
- Sornette Cycle, 2023
- I Sat Out the Getties, 2023
- For the Next Volunteer, 2022
- A Short Stretch of Five, 2022
- Disclosures, 2021
- Vessels for Weaning With, 2017
- The Internet, 2011
Articles & Reviews
LITERATURE AND CULTURE
- “A Review of Ishion Hutchinson’s ‘School for Instructions’” in Rain Taxi,
Spring 2024 - “A Review of Sara Gallardo’s ‘January’” in Full Stop, December 2023
- “A Review of Eva Balthasar’s ‘Boulder’” in Rain Taxi, January 2023
- “A Review of Scholastique Mukasonga’s ‘Kibogo’” in Asymptote,
January 2023 - “A Review of Jana Prikryl’s ‘Midwood’” in Tupelo Quarterly, November
2022 - “A Review of Nicole Rudick’s ‘What Is Now Known Was Once Only
Imagined: An (Auto)Biography of Niki de Saint Phalle’” in The Rupture,
June 2022 - “A Review of Hanne Orstevik’s ‘The Pastor’” in The Rupture, February
2022 - “A Review of Jean Giono’s ‘Ennemonde’” in Asymptote, April 2022
- “A Review of Cutter Streeby’s Tension: Rupture’” in Tupelo Quarterly,
March 2022 - "A Review of Marie NDiaye's 'That Time of Year'" in The Believer, March
2021 - "A Review of Mike Peros' 'Jose Ferrer: Success and Survival'" in
Cineaste, Spring 2021 - "Interview with Kathryn Scanlan" in The Rumpus, June 2020
- "Illustrating at a Social Distance: On Beardsley, Wilde and 'Salome'" in
Catapult, May 2020 - "How Mary Oppen Rewrote the Role of the Artist's Wife" in LitHub, May
2020 - "Books to Hold and Hold on To: Kaother Adimi's Our Riches" in Los
Angeles Review of Books, April 2020 - "When Doodles Tell a Story Words Cannot" in Catapult, April 2020
- "'Feeling Heard' in Topeka: On Ben Lerner's The Topeka School " in
Kenyon Review Online, March 2020 - "A Review of Amina Cain's 'Indelicacy'" in The Believer, February 2020
- "A Cubist Portrait of an Egg: A Conversation with Deb Olin Unferth" in
The Adroit Journal, March 2020 - "Finding the Right Face for Charlotte in Charlotte's Web " in Catapult,
February 2020 - "Review of Trisha Low's Socialist Realism " in The Rupture, December
2019 - "This Cookbook from 1942 Is a Textbook for Making a Better World" in
Electric Literature, August 2019 - "On Victor Hugo's Posthumous Career as a Religious Prophet" in
LitHub, August 2019 - "What if Better Penmanship Could Make you a Better Person?" in The
Millions, August 2019 - "Animated Beasts and Animistic Voices in Agnes Desarthes' Hunting
Party " in Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2019 - "How a Mythical Imp that Snuck Up People’s Large Intestines Became a
Symbol of Japan" in Atlas Obscura, July 2016 - "A Lively, Unfinished Manuscript" in The Paris Review Daily, September
2013 - "Tribal Life in Old Lyme: Canada’s Colorblind Chronicler and his
Connecticut Exile" in The Public Domain Review, September 2015 - " Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance : Dan Carter Beard’s Foray into
Fiction" in The Public Domain Review, June 2014 - "Stacks by Louis Comfort Tiffany: Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn Library" in
Zocalo Public Square, May 2012
FOOD, EXTRA CRISPY
- Why Does Special K Call Strawberries 'Red Berries'?
- When Jackie Robinson Was a Coffee Executive
- The Oaxacan Christmas Celebration That’s All About Radishes
- Fletcherizing Was the Juicing of the 1890s
- Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard Really Hated Cereal Boxes
- Times Square Is the Doughnut Capital of New York
- The Most American Doughnut Is Cambodian
- Valuable Breakfast Lessons from Children's Books
- You Love Breakfast Because of Breast Milk
- Kaiser Rolls Are the Unsung Heroes of New York Breakfast Sandwiches
EDUCATION, THE ATLANTIC
- How the Internet Is Complicating the Art of Teaching
- The E-Reader: The Most Daunting Anthology
- Learning Cursive Is a Basic Right
- Don't Give Up on the Lecture
Fiction & Poetry
- “Better Choices” in Santa Monica Review, Spring 2025
- "For the Next Volunteer" FENCE, Winter 2024
- "My Pet" in The South Dakota Review, November 2021
- "Couple Friends" in Sycamore Review, Winter / Spring 2021
- "Judy Season" in The Wax Paper, May 2020
- "Famous Driver" in Pithead Chapel, May 2020
- "Seasonal Rush" in Amarillo Bay, May 2020
- "Protected Left" in Gulf Stream, November 2019 (Finalist in the 2019
Summer Contest) - "Wundergarten" in Santa Monica Review, Fall 2019
- "Edition of Ten" in Made in LA Anthology vol. 2, 2019
- "Morals" in Mer Vox, January 2019
- "Learned not Trained" in Foundry, December 2017
- "New Ark in Several Tours" in Volume 1 Brooklyn, December 2013
- "Training and Conditioning" in Gigantic, November 2012
- "In Review" in elimae, August 2007
About
Abby Walthausen is a writer and teacher
living in Los Angeles.
CONTACT
abbykw@gmail.com