Hello from Wisconsin, where I am spending the week with my boyfriend and his family. Tonight after dinner as the sunset started we saw this out over the lake, and it perfectly banded the sky. I hope this all finds you well, and that you are with the people you love. Happy Fourth of July.
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May 31, 2010
Kitsune
Found this staring up at me today from my desk. I think he’s about to start talking to me.
August 25, 2009
Mary Gaitskill on lost cats, pet psychics, kids who are not your kids but also are your kids, and loss, over at Granta.com. Also in issue 107. If you also want to write your Senator, your Congressional Rep and your local newspaper in support of single payer healthcare, click here. If you want to be [...]
August 21, 2009
The Book Video, Done Right
This is a video of Luis Alberto Urrea, for his novel Into the North. I was taken with how it really moved me. Most book videos are too long as trailers go, clumsy and in many cases painful to watch. But I found this precisely what I might have wanted to know about the author [...]
June 11, 2009
Portrait of the United States Conducted in the Salaries of Insurance Executives
I’ve just been staring at these for a few minutes now. From Bob Cesca’s blog, the salaries of the highest paid health insurance CEOs: * Ron Williams – Aetna – Total Compensation: $24,300,112. * H. Edward Hanway – CIGNA – Total Compensation: $12,236,740. * Angela Braly – WellPoint – Total Compensation: $9,844,212. * Dale Wolf [...]
June 10, 2009
“The Heart of a Female Warrior”: Sam J. Miller Interviews Mary McConnell at Galactica Sitrep
In popular culture, we always imagine that the robots will want to exterminate us. There’s a real fear that as soon as machines become intelligent, they become a threat to us. Why do you think people have that knee-jerk reaction? Because I think that we’re still trying to struggle beyond fear-based culture. I don’t think [...]
May 20, 2009
The AAWW Debut Fiction Vespa Raffle
The Double A, Double W (as I like to call it) is throwing down hard this Thursday with a debut fiction reading and a raffle benefiting the workshop. The top prize is a brand-new Vespa LX50, in the iconic Robin’s egg blue. One thing I learned in Greece last summer is that I could rent [...]
January 27, 2009
Ways to Celebrate the Year of the Ox
When I was a kid, for Lunar New Year we went and bowed to our parents and received red envelopes full of money to go and celebrate. We also made this soup, which you’re supposed to make and eat for good luck. For the record we used beef bullion as well. Other things: My friend [...]
January 22, 2009
January 22, 2009
Before I leave to go back to Paris for more research, I have a lunch with my friend Sabina Murray, in which she describes what I think is the perfect method for doing research for fiction: “I read everything I need and then when I start writing I reread the parts that are necessary in [...]
November 18, 2008
Books and Blogging: Luc Sante, Ed Park, Emily Gould, Marie Mockett And Alexander Chee At The LWC of the CLMP
This Saturday I’ll be on a panel on books and blogging at the CLMP’s Literary Writers’ Conference, with Luc Sante, Ed Park and Emily Gould, and moderated by Marie Mockett. If I’m exhausted and feeling like my life belongs to too many people besides me, I’ll probably be talking about the neurotic relationship most literary [...]
