We watched the final DVD for the first season of Weeds last night. HOT damn is that a great show! If anyone is watching the second season right now, DO NOT tell me what is going on. I’m determined to wait until it comes out on DVD. But anyway, we were talking about the show on our walk this morning and Allen was cracking … Read More skinny-fat
Dorothy Allison recommended a book on writing by Ursula K. Le Guin in workshop last month. She didn’t have the title on the tip of her tongue, but I think it is this excellent one I have purchased–Steering the Craft. I’m reading it at this time because I am in revision mode and need a push, some guidance, the voice of a mentor. Now, … Read More "Ultimately you write alone."
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Okay, I’ve always loved him. I was an English major in undergrad and grad school, so I’ve read Gatsby about one million times–but still I love it. Just recently, I read Tender is the Night for the first time and was awestruck from the first page. So I bought the Library of America edition of Fitzgerald’s work and am now reading … Read More things I love
What you notice first and foremost about Ellen Meister’s debut novel, Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA, is how humane she is as a writer. The women she writes about are real—they are not caricatures, they are not stereotypes. Instead they fall down, they embarrass themselves, they lose control. They lust, they fight, they envy, they are jealous. They are passionate, they are smart, … Read More Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA, by Ellen Meister
I’m behind on my reading and finally caught up with these gems, all from the latest Mississippi Review: When I Lived There, by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Farmer, by Kim Chinquee Slip, by Claudia Smith And then this excellent review in SmokeLong Quarterly: Visit Home: March 2006 by Kevin Walters, reviewed by Thomas White And, great stuff over at Storyglossia, You Go, by Alicia Gifford … Read More read it
I so wish I was at the Fringe right now! My best friend, her husband, and brother are there putting on their show Knight Time. Here’s the blurb: Ever wondered what it would be like to be a Knight? Join Jack as he enters the Knight Trials and finds that being a Knight is not all it’s cracked up to be. We’ll even show … Read More The Edinburgh Festival Fringe
1) Have been thinking a lot about fright lately–mostly mine. It seems in the past five years I’ve acquired stage fright. I never had it before–was always comfortable, even excited, to be up on stage in front of people. I’m a shy person, but I’m also a bit of a clown and love nothing more than to make people laugh. I knew that the … Read More fright
The sound of cicadas in the trees is bittersweet. Summer is still here, but fleetingly. We would head back to the city after spending the summer at the lake. We would be hot and not quite ready for school to start. The streets would be quiet. The only sound, the cicadas. My sister and I and some of her friends would jump fences of … Read More Cicadas
Robin Slick, one of my favorite writers and people, has a new story available and you are going to want to read it. This story is red, and read, hot.
Anne Elliot (excellent human being and mother of my dog-baby’s twin) submits to What Are You Working On? YEAH!
The one and only Jordan Rosenfeld reviews “Blithe Tomato” (scroll down once you click on the link).
myfanwy collins 