Julie Klam's Blog, page 4
July 31, 2009
BOB EDWARDS SHOW
I'll be on the GREAT BOB EDWARDS show today, Friday, 7/31/09 and tomorrow Its on XM 133 or Sirius 196. It first airs from 8-9 AM. Then it re-runs 9-10 AM, 10-11 AM, 4-5 PM, 8-9 PM, and 10-11 PM. Then on Saturday from 9-10 PM, Friday's show will repeat.
THANKS, MR. EDWARDS!
July 11, 2009
Barnes and Noble Review
Thank you, Brooke Allen!
Please Excuse My Daughter B&N Review
Two recent women's memoirs have caught my fancy. The first is Please Excuse My Daughter by Julie Klam (Riverhead Books). With wry humor and a pleasing way of combining self-criticism with a genuine forgiveness for her feckless younger self, Klam describes her upbringing as an overindulged and overprotected Jewish-American Princess in the wealthy WASP enclave of Bedford, New York.
Klam's glamorous mother raised her only daughter to be th
July 7, 2009
Quinn Cummings
<!-- Begin #content --> <!-- Begin #main -->If you know me at all, you've heard me talk about Notes From The Underwire: Adventures from my Awkward and Lovely Life by Quinn Cummings which comes out TODAY from Hyperion. Let's be clear, I loved this book. This, my friends, is a voice you've never heard. The book at once hilarious, honest, insightful, and did I mention hilarious? Recently Quinn offered to answer a question or two that I could then share with my blog readers (reader?) and I jumped at the chance.
In my former life I might
June 27, 2009
My blog stinks these days
I apologize. I have been so busy writing the new book and some other pieces that I just don't have time to do anything here, but annoyingly self promote. That is why I'm writing a quick post to say 'my blog stinks these days.'
Love and kisses, Julie
June 24, 2009
June 22, 2009
June 10, 2009
July Magazines
I have an essay in Family Circle and one in Cookie. Enjoy!
June 9, 2009
The Screaming Inane NYC Fight
FADE IN:
INT: Stationary Store – day
A harried 42 year old woman stands in the card store with her 5 year old daughter who is picking out a “present” for herself, maybe colored pencils, maybe clay… The woman holds 4 leashes, at the end of each leash is a dog.
Enter: an older woman, grey hair, round, late 70s with a Scotty on a leash.
The 4 dogs start barking at the Scotty who barks back.
OLDER WOMAN: Oh, I’ll go, will you be long?
YOUNGER WOMAN: No, we’re almost done!
The younger woman goes to help h
May 17, 2009
Book Court this week!
I’ll be reading at Book Court in Brooklyn this week with the fabulous Lise Funderburg who will be reading from her memoir, Pig Candy.
Other than that, I am working furiously to finish my book by the end of Violet’s school year. That’s just six more weeks! Off I go!
April 24, 2009
In defense of the literary agent
I was briefly following a literary agent on Twitter who dispenses advice one day a month (I think it’s called #queryday). I’ve never heard of this person, but she has a substantial following. I believe she’s addressing mostly people who are in search of an agent or a book deal.
One of her tweets hit me like an arrow –it was the last one I read before I removed myself from her followers. She said, “An agent’s job is not to handhold or coddle or boost a writer’s self-esteem. An agent’s job is to s
