Catie Disabato's Blog, page 14
May 1, 2015
melvillehouse:
We love THE GHOST NETWORK so much that we made a...
We love THE GHOST NETWORK so much that we made a fanzine about it!
It’ll be available FOR FREE at select bookstores, and the full list is coming soon - and if you don’t see your local indie on it, email me at liam@mhpbooks.com and we’ll see what we can do about getting them some copies.
WHERE IS MOLLY METROPOLIS? Find out 5/2.
(with special thanks to catiedisabato)!
April 29, 2015
April 28, 2015
silkinsights:
A look at some of the black women killed by the...
A look at some of the black women killed by the police in 2014.
Catie Disabato: The Nervous Breakdown Interview
Why did you decide to make the relationship between Taer and Nix a love relationship?
(This is also where I say that I “got déjà vu” and ask: Is it the alcohol leaving my body or were we all here in our past lives? “We are spiritual kinsmen,” says Nicky. Catie is busy chewing.)
CATIE: I’m a huge fan of Haruki Murakami. I was an even bigger fan in college and I started writing this book right after college. One of the things that annoy me about his books, based in what I’m interested in reading, is that he writes about men searching for women who have disappeared. I always wanted the women to be the ones searching. An early idea of mine was to flip the Murakami narrative. And then, instead of flipping it and having a woman searching for a man, because I also wanted to write about a pop star that disappeared, I thought to have a woman search for a woman. (Catie’s chorizo and scramble arrives. She says, “This looks really amazing.”) Ultimately the relationship between the people who search for Molly and Molly herself is not romantic or sexual, though I’m sure there is some element of Taer having a celebrity crush on Molly. On some level. A woman searching for a woman felt a lot “queer-er” than Murakami, so it was very natural to have one of the primary relationships in the book to be a romance between women, a lesbian relationship. I also think of Berliner and his relationship with his girlfriend Kraus, although it’s a heterosexual relationship, as a little queer just because their sex life is so weird and different.
Get the rest of the interview here! And remember, THE GHOST NETWORK is amazing and you should already be reading it.
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April 27, 2015
"[Hawking] went on to explain that while Zayn may no longer be a part of One Direction in our world,..."
[Hawking] went on to explain that while Zayn may no longer be a part of One Direction in our world, there may yet exist an alternate universe where he was in fact still in the band.
‘My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physics,’ Professor Hawking explained. ‘It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another different universe.
‘And in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction.’
”- Stephen Hawking quoted in Metro.co.uk (via sarahmccarry)
April 24, 2015
melvillehouse:
Finding love is hard. Finding your next favorite...
Finding love is hard. Finding your next favorite book is even harder. So coverspy and housingworksbookstore, with a little help from catiedisabato, are coming to the rescue. It’s Literary Speed Dating: Queer Ladies Edition!
All ladies who like ladies will get three things next week at Housing Works.
1) A chance to win their next favorite book, THE GHOST NETWORK
2) A discount ticket when they use the promo code WOOLF
3) A free drink
You’ll notice I didn’t include true love. Because that might not happen, and I don’t promise things I can’t deliver! What I can say without a shadow of a doubt is that THE GHOST NETWORK is fucking brilliant, coverspy and housingworksbookstore bring people together brilliantly, and your life will be markedly better for having all three in your life.
So come to Soho, flirt with some bookish ladies, and decide who has the best eye makeup. (Though I’m pretty sure this book is gonna show everyone up.)
Event PSA for any New York babes who follow
April 22, 2015
into this fan art
into this fan art
April 21, 2015
14 DAYS UNTIL THE GHOST NETWORK
Here are four ways to tell if you’re in love with THE GHOST NETWORK:
1) when you watch movies starring Miles Teller you wish he was THE GHOST NETWORK
2) when you get invited to weddings you RSVP “plus one: THE GHOST NETWORK”
3) you and THE GHOST NETWORK don’t always see eye to eye on political or social conflicts and sometimes THE GHOST NETWORK says it’ll finish doing the dishes but leaves the dishes in the sink all night and there was that one time THE GHOST NETWORK accidentally broke your favorite framed photo (which is of you and THE GHOST NETWORK holding hands in front of a Richard Serra installation) and never got around to buying a new frame, but you miss THE GHOST NETWORK when it has to travel for work and you’re fully prepared to co-sign a mortgage with THE GHOST NETWORK because it is super good with its personal finances
4) You have read THE GHOST NETWORK
Are you guys sick of me yet?
"It was written in the third person, the person most girls use when they want to talk about..."
- Chris Kraus, “I Love Dick” (via kylelucia)
