Jac Jemc, On Reading

"Reading is one of the few things I can enjoy with immediacy. I'm often anxious in social situations and can have trouble doing nothing. Reading, however, feels like the perfect mix of activity and inactivity: I can read for hours at a time or for the five minutes waiting for the bus, and it always feels full and necessary. There is no self-consciousness or guilt associated with reading."

{Jac Jemc's novel, My Only Wife will be published by Dzanc Books in May 2012. For more information, check out her website here. }