Culture Club: Crazy Little Thing Called Writing

“Writing’s a lonely business,” the poet Cindi Reiss confided the other day. “It’s helpful not to feel like you’re the only one doing it.” We were talking about the Phoenix Writers Club, the 100-year-old organization of which Reiss is president. The club was founded in 1926 by a group of women whose membership in the Arizona Press Club had been denied because, well, they were female. “So, they formed their own club,” Reiss told me a few days after I’d visited a Saturday morning gathering of the g