Catie Disabato's Blog, page 15
April 19, 2015
Yesterday at the LA Times Festival of Books the only things I...
Yesterday at the LA Times Festival of Books the only things I took pics of were zanopticon’s killer iPhone cover and our nails together.
April 17, 2015
melvillehouse:
Guess what, Tumblr? It’s #FreeBookFriday, where...
Guess what, Tumblr? It’s #FreeBookFriday, where we place copies of THE GHOST NETWORK somewhere in New York City and give you clues on our social media accounts so you can track them down! If you do, let us know on social media with the #FreeBookFriday tag, and trust me, you’ll want to start reading this book as soon as you get on the train - it’ll make you miss your stop, but it’s so, so worth it.
AWP: The Aftermath
I’m so tired all the time this week because I think that sometimes being too happy wears me out more than being too sad. Joy is the most frightening of all emotions because it raises me up an the higher I get the more I anticipate the fall.
I am working, though, on not letting my fear get the best of me. This morning, I’m drinking coffee from my favorite cup and thinking about how happy I am. I’m trying to pick all the fear out of the joy.
I wear a lot of black tops and my hair is thick and blonde so I shed all over myself all day long. In the bathroom, I take off my dark shirts and try to pick off all the hairs. Even using a lint roller I can’t always get every single thin little strand. A few remain, and I can see them, I can feel them tickling my neck - but the shirt still looks presentable, still looks mostly black.
April 15, 2015
thrilled:thrilled:taylor swift’s style video set to “summertime...
taylor swift’s style video set to “summertime sadness” as god originally intended
really tho
but really tho
April 14, 2015
21 DAYS UNTIL THE GHOST NETWORK
I had the singular pleasure of selling this book at last week’s AWP conference in Minneapolis.
(That’s author catiedisabato on the top right; below are several newly minted fans.)
THE GHOST NETWORK goes on sale three weeks from today, and in those three weeks I’ll be doing a little (or a lot) something every day on here about the book. The reasons for this are simple. Because:
This is a book for anyone who likes to drink a huge mug of coffee and browse Wikipedia entries of unsolved mysteries.
This is a book for anyone who wishes they knew exactly how the subway system works, and who when they see an out-of-service car roll by them, briefly consider hopping on.
This is a book for anyone who likes both old maps and new Taylor Swift.
This is a book about complicated queer women solving mysteries and kicking ass with well-worn boots.
This is a book for anyone who lives in a city and reads books to make that city seem as beautiful and cavernous and mysterious as it was the first day they arrived.
It is, in short, YOUR NEXT FAVORITE BOOK.
Stay tuned.
Get Excited, Bitches. The Ghost Network is Coming.
April 11, 2015
April 8, 2015
pitchfork:Carly Rae Jepsen’s “All That” is named Best New...
Assuming this song is indicative, I’m gonna go bat shit for the Dev Hynes produced Carly Rae Jepson album.
melvillehouse:THE GHOST NETWORK needs no filter. Come buy your...
THE GHOST NETWORK needs no filter. Come buy your next favorite book at booth 1008! #AWP2015!
Plus if you come on Friday at 3pm I’ll sign the shit out of it for you
glintglimmergleam:a lot of prescriptive linguists (the fancy term for snotty english majors,...
a lot of prescriptive linguists (the fancy term for snotty english majors, faux-talgic baby boomers, racist gatekeepers, and other subdivisions of the language police) like to shame The Youth for lazy capitalization and punctuation, but the interesting thing is that most young ppl i know who build their lives around texting are actually pretty damn deliberate about their language choices
“u” and “you” show degrees of closeness w/ your partner; using punctuation at the end of a reply text indicates tone; capitalizing certain words in the middle of the sentence is for Emphasis; sometimes we’re sloppy and sometimes we make mistakes but there is a real grammar to internet communication because by “grammar” i mean a “code of language rules that society agrees upon in order to create meaning”, and that is the opposite of being lazy
(tumblr absolutely has such a grammar and you can tell when someone’s not fluent)
the old guard is passionately defending a pure linguistic territory that we don’t want anymore, it’s not useful enough for 21st century relationships dependent on the subtleties of texts
