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March 14, 2016
“I Am No Bird”
Filed under: Life, Writing Tagged: Charlotte Bronte, feminism, quote, women writers
March 11, 2016
Photos from the Burroughs Birthday Bash at Cornelia Street
Three Room Press’ annual William S. Burroughs birthday bash at Cornelia Street Café is one of my favorite literary events of the year. I’ve been going for three years straight—since they started it!—with one of my very best friends, Sue. It’s intimate and snarky and creative. It feels like a bunch of intellectual but down-to-earth […]
March 8, 2016
Cheese Is My Love Language
“I have gotten six different kinds of cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup,” my friend texted me, excited about my upcoming visit. Then she corrected herself: “Actually 7.” “Cheese is my love language,” I said. This is the same friend who introduced me to the cheese section of Stew Leonard’s. You might also like […]
March 7, 2016
Happy National Women’s History Month
March is National Women’s History Month. I’ll be posting quotes by women writers each Monday of the month. You might also like::: NY chapter of Scripps (the women’s college) book club reads Burning Furiously Beautiful How to murder a woman’s sense of worth VIDA does a great job tracking women writers Vice’s suicide poet: Elise Cowen […]
March 3, 2016
Trying to Get My Footing
“Are you wearing my socks?” he asked. Upon closer inspection, he laughed: “You’re wearing two different socks.”Filed under: Life Tagged: fashion, life
March 2, 2016
Book Marketing in Train Stations
I had a nightmarish situation at the train station the other night. I went out to Connecticut to visit a dear friend, and we got so wrapped up in conversation that I almost missed the last train of the night. She rushed me to the train station, where there were several others also waiting for […]
March 1, 2016
A Greek Cure for the Common Cold
“A little more, Antonkai,” my yiayia used to say to my father when she was feeling sick and wanted some homemade tsipouro, a Greek liquor made from the leftover skins of grapes. She only drank a little at a time but would keep having my father refill her glass with just a little more. I […]
February 27, 2016
Celebrate National Haiku Writing Month with Kerouac
Most writers know about NaNoWriMo–National Novel Writing Month in November. But did you know that February is National Haiku Writing Month? To celebrate NaHaikWriMo, I’ve been reading haikus by Jack Kerouac and writing a few of my own. Interestingly, Jack Kerouac’s Book of Haikus was published in Persian before On the Road was translated. Here are a few articles from […]
February 26, 2016
A Chance Encounter Leads to a New Book to Read
I felt a tug on my shoulder. Startled out of my morning fog, I turned around. There was a woman I hadn’t seen in quite some time. We had graduated from the same women’s college but in different years. “How are you?” she asked. Then she asked if I’d read a certain book. I […]
February 24, 2016
11 Ways to Create Tension
I’m trying to build more tension into my memoir and turned to the internet for advice on how to build tension. Here are eleven tips for creating tension in your book: Now Novel’s How to Create Tension in a Story: “Keep raising the stakes: Your story needs several points where tension reaches a peak.” Writer’s […]
