Our fair Jessica has just received a glowing review in the LA Times for her latest, a collaboration with designer Rodrigo Corral, titled Chopsticks. And those Times aren't the only ones saying big things about this multimedia novel's place in the evolving digital landscape. Read the Wall Street Journal article here. We at the Accord are stretching out before we start the marathon celebrations!

Jessica Anthony's multimedia novel Chopsticks will be published by Penguin/Razorbill in February 2012. She is now teaching in the MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University, to boot!

We, the delegates to the second Portland Accord, welcome novelist Jessica Anthony (author of The Convalescent and other smashing writings) to our circle of peer pressure and intranational crafting. Faced with late-winter production deficits in key areas, we believe it is best to embrace Jess's fantastic productivities rather than to cower in the face of them. Delegate Anthony accepted our offer with her now-famous line, "Ask not what my stories can do for you; ask what you can do for my stories." Boldly, we expand to support, defend, and make complete fun of them.