My book is a real book! and other updates
I have a box of hefty, gorgeous, very real finished books in my office, and the release date of October 15th, which felt so terribly far off when I signed the contract with Tin House in the summer of 2012, …
Writer, with Kids: Levi Weinhagen
Levi Weinhagen, author of dozens of stage productions over the past 15 years Age of kid: 7 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Before I became a parent I didn’t …
Writer, with Kids: Dena Rash Guzman
Dena Rash Guzman, author of Life Cycle—Poems Age of kid: 14 year old son What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? I don’t remember anymore. I think the thing with BC …
Writer, with Kids: Gayle Brandeis
Gayle Brandeis, author of of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, Dictionary Poems, the novels The Book of Dead Birds, which won Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, Self Storage …
Writer, with Kids: Brian Gresko
Brian Gresko is the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers on Fatherhood, forthcoming from Berkley Books/Penguin in spring 2014. He has contributed to The Huffington Post, and written about books and culture for …
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1. The lovely folks at The Villager published an excerpt from The Revolution of Every Day in their recent “V Lit” section. You can read it here. 2. The Tin House Writer’s Workshop brought many wonderful authors to town, which …
Writer, with Fetus: Christopher Higgs
Christopher Higgs, author of: The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney (Sator Press) Assembler of: ONE (Roof Books), with Vanessa Place and Blake Butler What is your writing schedule like now, and how do you anticipate it will change …
Writer, with Kids: Yelizaveta P. Renfro
Yelizaveta P. Renfro, author of a short story collection, A Catalogue of Everything in the World (Black Lawrence Press), and a collection of essays forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press in 2014. Ages of kids: 5 and 8. …
Writer, with Kids: Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You (debut novel, forthcoming spring 2014, Penguin Press) Age of kids: one son, 2 ¾ years old What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that …
My book traveled to France without me
I think it’s having a good time. (Photo is of the wonderful Laurie Mittelmann, co-director of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space)