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May 16, 2015
Early Saturday reading, single serving short fiction, which I...
Early Saturday reading, single serving short fiction, which I picked up at the paperdarts party at AWP. This story, Letters Between Tortoise and Hare, by Brandi Wells is in-fucking-credible. Find it if you can, I’m gonna be thinking about all fucking day.
May 10, 2015
Do you ever really worry that you’re going to accidentally say...
Do you ever really worry that you’re going to accidentally say something inflammatory? Not necessarily. As far as the need to rebel against the idea of you, or the image of you: Like, I feel no need to burn down the house I built by hand. I can make additions to it. I can redecorate. But I built this. And so I’m not going to sit there and say, “Oh, I wish I hadn’t had corkscrew-curly hair and worn cowboy boots and sundresses to awards shows when I was 17; I wish I hadn’t gone through that fairy-tale phase where I just wanted to wear princess dresses to awards shows every single time.” Because I made those choices. I did that. It was part of me growing up. It wasn’t some committee going, “You know what Taylor needs to be this year?” And so with 1989, I feel like we gave the entire metaphorical house I built a complete renovation and it made me love the house even more—but still keeping the foundation of what I’ve always been. - Taylor Swift for Elle Magazine
Sunday reads include joyallenwritesitdown’s fucking...
Sunday reads include joyallenwritesitdown’s fucking excellent short story “Sunday Lunch and Black Hole” in postroadmag and “Precious Katherine” from Gutshot which I loved deeply because it was good and honors my wonderful name.
May 8, 2015
writingworkshopsla:
WWLA novel writing student, and former WWLA...
WWLA novel writing student, and former WWLA social media coordinator, Catie Disabato, reading to a packed house at Skylight Books last night. Her novel THE GHOST NETWORK came out Tuesday and it’s already garnered lots of praise (por ejemplo: a starred review in Publishers Weekly!). Go to your local bookstore and get it today!
Look at me, I’m a delicious cupcake
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Friends 4 Ever!
Edan and I were “in...
Friends 4 Ever!
Edan and I were “in conversation” at Green Apple Books in San Fran last night. I was manic but also articulate and hot as hell. Edan asked the best questions and was just generally smart and funny. I had the best time.
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THE GHOST NETWORK will suck you in and transport...
May 5, 2015
Pub Day
I woke up a little early to take a quiet moment to have my coffee with my saints candles of Lana Del Rey and Lady Gaga. They are angled towards me so it looks like they are watching me while they burn. Taylor Swift, in her ALA Read Poster, smiles down on us.
Today is the publication day for my book. I have my outfit planned out, and also a plan for tomorrow the day of my book party at Skylight. I’m scared I won’t be able to be present in the joy of the moment, so I will take with me a belated birthday gift for one of my friends and give it to her just before I read. I’m hoping a brief moment that’s not about me will let me be inside all the parts that are about me.
This is going to be over soon, and so I want to have it while i’m here. So often I am pushing off the present moment like a competitive swimmer pushes off a diving block. (When I was a little girl on a swim team, I wasn’t afraid of losing - I always, always lost - I was afraid of a slow reaction time, missing the starting bell and not diving into the water as fast as the other girls. Losing was fine but seeming lost was embarrassing. So I stressed and stressed, could I fully be in that moment? I was never late to jump, but I never stopped stressing out about it.)
Today my goals are to feel my happiness, not worry that I’m retweeting too much about myself, and not to give into my temptation to eat cheese. I’m a little lactose intolerant, and I don’t want to be all cramp-y on my pub day.
May 4, 2015
Episode 30: Elisabeth Donnelly & Catie Disabato
On today’s episode, two pieces about how special relationships can slip into our lives and disappear, sometimes without warning. Elisabeth Donnelly reads an essay, “How to Befriend a Cat,” and Catie Disabato reads from her new novel, The Ghost Network.
I read from my novel for The Catapult! You can listen and see if my new, weird confidence about my speaking voice is warranted or deluded.
Also, Elisabeth’s essay is engaging & a delight to listen to.
