When I first started this blog back in 2012, I didn't really know what it was going to be. I was a baby writer (21!) and had only one short story out in the world. This blog was a place for me to share what I was reading, what I was listening to, what I… Continue reading The End (or something like it)
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Rodarte FW 2018
Rodarte is more or less known for being a bit grandma-chic, but that doesn't mean that they're great stuff isn't, well, pretty damn great. Their Fall/Winter 18 collection is kinda spectacular, especially when on the wonderful celebrities they picked to model - especially Kirsten Dunst, Danai Gurira, Tessa Thompson and Grimes, among many others. It's… Continue reading Rodarte FW 2018
Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
For background on the Sunday Circle, see this post. What am I working on this week? I haven't made one of these posts yet this year, which isn't to say that I haven't been writing. In fact, I've been writing more than I have in months. I've managed to write 12,000 new words on Flight, my historical… Continue reading Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
Friday Finds
Readers who studied John Updike are conditioned to find those kinds of admissions adorably annoying, charmingly childish. Rich and his fictional brethren, from Alexander Portnoy all the way back to Peter Pan, are the man-boys we love to hate. Women and nonwhite men don’t have it quite as easy. If boys will be boys, then… Continue reading Friday Finds
2017 in Books: June
Oh, man, a little late this month, but hey! Here are the books I read in June. People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry It's not exactly a secret that I am enjoying a bit of a love affair with true crime (although that might be the wrong phrasing). Richard Lloyd Parry's detailed account of… Continue reading 2017 in Books: June
2016 in Books: November
November was a bit of an interesting reading month for me, if only because I didn't really love any of the books that I read. I'm hoping to make up for that in December by reading a few that have been on my to-read list for a while, and maybe even re-read a couple of… Continue reading 2016 in Books: November
Friday Finds
Then, in her Jamaica Estates home, where the government said she’d forced scholarship students to clean and cook, she turned on the gas in the kitchen, slit her wrists, and, when the desired result didn’t come quickly enough, tossed a stereo cord over the ladder to the attic and hung herself. The notes, carefully written… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
In the spring of 1969 Angela Carter won the Somerset Maugham Award. Her £500 bursary was to be spent on foreign travel. She first went to the United States, with her husband Paul Carter, from whom she was becoming increasingly estranged. She then went to Japan, alone. This article on Angela Carter's time in Japan… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
I read and reread the transcripts from interviews I had recorded with my mother when I was pregnant with my own daughter more than 20 years ago, when I realized I didn’t have even a timeline of her life. Six hours of tapes and they didn’t tell me what I now wanted to know. So… Continue reading Friday Finds
Friday Finds
She could take a stupid problem (men’s concerns about women’s skirts), frame it in the stupidest way possible (“Are Girls’ Knees Immoral?”), and spin gold, beginning by pointing out how odd it is that people can be scandalized by women’s knees on the street but not much more flesh on a beach, and then concluding,… Continue reading Friday Finds
Sophie Overett 