January 2011
23 posts
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: It won't let me... →
housingworksbookstore:
So I’ll just say here that I disagree with a few of you who are saying it isn’t a gender issue. As a female writer, I think my response to dealing with a much more successful partner would be inextricable from my feeling that society constantly tells us male writers deserve more ink. I think my…
Victorian Text Messages →
I am doing this now. So get ready.
“They’re always eating candy in Shelbyville. They love the sweet taste!”
– Milhouse Van Houten (via thefeeling)
7x20x21 at Digital Book World
Monday evening Ryan Chapman and I will be hosting a 7x20x21 at Digital Book World’s opening ceremonies.
7x20x21, if you’ve never been, is sort of the bastard child of Ignite talks and the StoryCorps booth—we invite people in or related to publishing to come and present on any topic they’re passionate about.
Sometimes this is a recounting of an experiment, or riffing on an...
The Doree Chronicles: Favorite New York Fiction,... →
This is absolutely not something that should be added to a list of novels that are strong through and through. BUT there is this page in Zaide Smith’s The Autograph Man, which is not actually a very good book, where a character is driving through New York City in a taxi for the first time, and it is perfect.
mcnallyjackson:
doree:
- Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents...
“1. Recognize that you are not the center of the universe
2. Figure out how...”
– Kathleen Hanna’s list of instructions in Riot Grrrl, issue 2. Found in Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution.
Encyclopedia Hanasiana: Introducing the "NBA minus... →
Just learned about this via Twitter, and Jim Hanas, I commend you.
jimhanas:
I’ve always been a terrible reader. I’ve read more than my share, I suppose—for an American born in the late twentieth century—but I’ve rarely derived the escapist joy that real readers describe. When I was a teenager, my mother once gave me a book—Catcher in the Rye or Tom Sawyer, I think—and…
Al Sharpton absolutely kills it at The Moth (eight...
“Do you hear that, darling? It’s your body talking to you. Do what it tells you...”
– The subject of this Dear Sugar column from The Rumpus is not something that I worry about, but this line resonates nonetheless.
If you’re not already signed up for daily emails from The Rumpus, I would really recommend them—they are stream-of-consciousness missives direct from Stephen...
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Watch“All the white power gangs do the humor books and the cookbooks—they have that market cornered.”
—Patton Oswald, on ghost writing
In Jersey, the Shore Watches You
I wasn’t going to write about this Slate interview with the ghost writer of A Shore Thing (aka, The Snooki Book), but then Nic linked to it over at BookMadam and I decided it was game on.
One of the things that struck me about the interview is the way Valerie Frankel emphasizes her own past as a Jersey girl:
Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it’s...
“Remember, there’s no shame in admitting that you’re indifferent to...”
– The fact that Heather Havrilesky is now writing for The Awl means that the universe cares about my own personal happiness.