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1. This is what it looks like when you tell your kids they can each choose two books at Powell’s: Never fear. Right after I took the picture I made Kiddo clean up that pile of books and compare his …
Peter Rock’s World
I recently read The Bewildered by Peter Rock. I’d read My Abandonment a month or two earlier, and loved it. My Abandonment was published after The Bewildered, and I now somewhat regret reading them in reverse order, because as I …
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday, dear MEEEEEE-HEEEEEEEE! Happy birthday to me! Okay, that’s kind of a lie. I was still 38 in that picture, but BARELY. We celebrated on Saturday night. I’m thirty-nine today. Thirty …
Breaking up with Girlie
Girlie turned two on March 31st. She’s a great big self-potty-trained girl who’s been speaking in paragraphs since she was eighteen months old. She has sophisticated opinions about food and music and Dora the Explorer. She also nurses almost constantly. …
Writer, with Kids: Rosemary McLaughlin
Rosemary McLaughlin, Playwright: Paterson Falls; A More Opportune Time; The Chair; Standing in the Shadows; Voices Carry, Motherless Child Age of kids: 7 & 8 As I write this, nose pressed up against the deadline, I just finished wrestling the …
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1. This ridiculous essay made the rounds on Twitter the other day. I was buried in children but promised to share my thoughts later, then didn’t have the energy to make good on that promise once the kids were asleep. …
Writer, with Kids: Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger is the award-winning New York Times and international bestselling author of 11 titles, most recently Heartbroken. Her novels have sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into 26 different languages. But more importantly, …
The post I’ve been wanting to write since I started the blog in 2003
Hey, so…guys? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am proud/thrilled/honored/excited/overwhelmed-and-wanting-to-cry to announce that my debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, will be published by Tin House Books. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tin House! I mean, seriously… TIN HOUSE. I can’t imagine a better home for this …
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Writer, with Kids: Susan Choi
Susan Choi, Pulitzer-Prize finalist, author of: The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and a forthcoming novel the title of which is still under debate Age of kids: Dexter will be 8 on July 9, 2012. Elliot will …