misc.
Things I’ve given up for Lent.
Strictly speaking, as a Jew, I don’t have to give anything up for lent. But I do find that extreme psychic deprivation distracts me from the various seething resentments that go with being a writer. So here’s what I’m giving up: Manolo Blahnik shoes. Folding laundry. Watching the Academy Awards and caring what anyone wore. [...]
Everything you need to know to be a writer.
The truth can at last be told: I’m a life-long professional dilettante. I know how to rock-climb, ski, speak French. What it’s like to work on a presidential campaign and The New York Times, at an ad agency and Time Inc. And on a farm. I’ve worked on advertising shoots in foreign climes, so I [...]
What’s your number?
It occurred to me this morning that the sum total of all the phone numbers I know from memory can be counted on the fingers of two and a half hands: My mobile. My husband’s mobile. Our home number. My best friend’s home number. My mother’s home number. My (2) sisters’ home numbers. Our oldest [...]
Finding A Voice
I always said I wouldn’t teach creative writing. There are too many ways to be a successful writer, and my taste only encompasses a small percentage of them. But over the past year or so, I find myself more and more interested in ‘Voice’. Not ‘voice’ as in how-to-write-like-a-man-or-a-baby-or-a-penguin. No. Voice in the sense of the [...]
ONE MILLION FREE BOOKS!!!!
No, this is not spam. If it were, you can imagine what sort of books you’d get for free. Books with titles like How To Marry A Sexy Girl You’ve Never Met or Best Penis Extensions (while we’re on that subject, why do I get those e-mails? Do you know any insecure middle-aged men named Meg?) [...]
most popular