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Everybody Watchung Tonight.

If you're in New Jersey on September 23, we'll have at least that much in common. I'm on a panel at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair at 7pm on 9/23. Details here.

Chimamanda Adichie.

Chimamanda Adichie is an inspiration.

"I was also an early writer. And when I began to write, at age seven, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading. All my characters were white and blue eyed. They played in the snow and ate apples. They talked about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out. Now, this despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria. I had never been outside Nigeria. We didn't have snow. We ate mangoes. And we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.

My characters also drank a lot of ginger beer because the characters in the British books I read drank ginger beer. Never mind that I had no idea what ginger beer was.

This demonstrates how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books, by their very nature, had to have foreigners in them, and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify....."

Read about her here.

Chimamanda Adichie.

Chimamanda Adichie is an inspiration.

"I was also an early writer. And when I began to write, at age seven, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading. All my characters were white and blue eyed. They played in the snow and ate apples. They talked about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out. Now, this despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria. I had never been outside Nigeria. We didn't have snow. We ate mangoes. And we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.

My characters also drank a lot of ginger beer because the characters in the British books I read drank ginger beer. Never mind that I had no idea what ginger beer was.

This demonstrates how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books, by their very nature, had to have foreigners in them, and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify....."

Read about her here.

Is Google changing the way we think?

Take a look at the result you get when you type, "Is google changing the way we think" into Google: here.

That's a relief.

Is Google changing the way we think?

Take a look at the result you get when you type, "Is google changing the way we think" into Google: here.

That's a relief.

Tweet It

Someone please reanimate Michael Jackson so that he can record this song for me. Thank you.

They told him don't you ever come around here
Don't wanna see your face, you better disappear
The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear
So tweet it, just tweet it

You better run, you better do what you can

Don't wanna see no blood, don't be a macho man

You wanna be tough, better do what you can

So tweet it, but you wanna be bad

Just tweet it, tweet it, tweet it, tweet it

No one wants to be defeated

Showin' how funky and strong is your fight

It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just tweet it, tweet it

Just tweet it, tweet it

Just tweet it, tweet it

Just tweet it, tweet it

They're out to get you, better leave while you can

Don't wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man

You wanna stay alive, better do what you can

So tweet it, just tweet it

You have to show them that you're really not scared

You're playin' with your life, this ain't no truth or dare

They'll kick you, then they tweet you,

Then they'll tell you it's fair

So tweet it, but you wanna be bad

Just tweet it, tweet it, tweet it, tweet it

No one wants to be defeated

Showin' how funky and strong is your fight

It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just tweet it, tweet it

Tweet it, tweet it, tweet it

Tweet It

Someone please reanimate Michael Jackson so that he can record this song for me. Thank you.

They told him don't you ever come around here
Don't wanna see your face, you better disappear
The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear
So tweet it, just tweet it

You better run, you better do what you can

Don't wanna see no blood, don't be a macho man

You wanna be tough, better do what you can

So tweet it, but you wanna be bad

Just tweet it, tweet it, tweet it, tweet it

No one wants to be defeated

Showin' how funky and strong is your fight

It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just tweet it, tweet it

Just tweet it, tweet it

Just tweet it, tweet it

Just tweet it, tweet it

They're out to get you, better leave while you can

Don't wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man

You wanna stay alive, better do what you can

So tweet it, just tweet it

You have to show them that you're really not scared

You're playin' with your life, this ain't no truth or dare

They'll kick you, then they tweet you,

Then they'll tell you it's fair

So tweet it, but you wanna be bad

Just tweet it, tweet it, tweet it, tweet it

No one wants to be defeated

Showin' how funky and strong is your fight

It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Just tweet it, tweet it

Tweet it, tweet it, tweet it

Note to self: Visit the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin.

I so want to give them my patronage after seeing this. Yes, yes, and yes.

(Via Janet Reid.)

Note to self: Visit the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin.

I so want to give them my patronage after seeing this. Yes, yes, and yes.

(Via Janet Reid.)

The Man in the Empty Suit

I'm Soho Press's problem now. I sold them my next book, The Man in the Empty Suit.

Read about it Publisher's Weekly, here (scroll down).

I couldn't be happier and I'm thrilled to be working with the overwhelmingly brilliant Juliet Grames. She's moderately able to stomach dealing with me, so it's a match made in publishing.