Want me to read you a story?
I’ve got a story in the September issue of PANK, which just went live today. PANK is a fantastic publication I’ve wanted to get into for quite a while. I’m so excited to be part of this issue. You can …
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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 …
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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Fishing without my father
We took the kids fishing for the first time last weekend. Kiddo had spent a week in fishing camp at the beginning of the summer, but this was the first time we all went as a family. I come from …
Waiting, again
I typed the title for this post and my brain served up a memory of Billy doing a godawful Jim Morrison impression. “Way-TING.. WAY-HAY-TING…” (As if the actual Jim Morrison weren’t bad enough. Not a Doors fan. Sorry. I was, …
Crazy DIY Hippie Mom Makes (not very good) “Candy”!
Well, I think I’ve done it. I’ve managed to top my own dear mother’s enthusiastic embrace of carob in the seventies. Damn you, carob! You are NOT a chocolate substitute and I’m still scarred. (Is carob even good for you? …
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1. I finished reading My Abandonment by Peter Rock this weekend. I loved it–it left me gutted. A child narrator is hard to pull off, and Rock does it so, so well. (PS: He’ll be this week’s guest in the …