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Serial killer workplace survival strategies. You’re welcome.
One of the fun things about writing in a town different from your own is that everything seems new and somewhat miraculous: “Why look! They give you coffee in a blue mug in this café. What wonders will we next behold?” While here, we’ve written in a lovely bookstore...
I am coming for your appliances. You are warned.
Yesterday, I nearly killed Holly Black’s coffee pot. It began to wheeze and fill up at the top with brown water and refused to drip actual coffee into the carafe. Somehow I had managed to clog it up and my repeated attempts at resuscitating it were unsuccessful. Like...
The Michael L. Printz Award
When I was five years old, my mother asked me what I’d like to be when I grew up. “Queen of England,” I answered. After all, her name was Elizabeth. My name was Elizabeth. LOVED her wardrobe. She had me at tiara. “You can’t be Queen of England,” Mom said. “You have to...
MJ tried to kill me
Yesterday, Maureen Johnson www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/index1.html tried to kill me. Here’s how it went down. Yesterday—bad day. I felt generally unwell and Woody Allen-ish, i.e., it was the sort of day in which I did not seem right in my skin...
Signings!
Ack! It's December. Did you know about this? Were you going to tell me? When were you going to tell me? Where have I been? Where am I now? Where do I need to be next? Where are my socks? I'll tell you where I've been--in the writer's cave, that's where. Down in the...
GIrl on a Wire
Several months ago, Maureen Johnson http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/index1.html lost a bet. She had to face her fear of flying high on a trapeze. Then she got swine flu and had to cancel. But yesterday, Maureen met her fear. And her fear looked her in the eye and...
I heart Junot Diaz
I love Junot Diaz. I'd always loved his short stories and then, I fell in love with his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. (Apparently, I wasn't the only one because it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction last year.) But I really love him for this essay about...
For Sylvie
This morning in Brooklyn, there is rain. It darkens the cement of the sidewalks and slickens the unswept leaves. It annoys the commuters as they hurry to the subways and buses, caught off-guard by such chilly assault after two days of spring-like warmth. It lays a...
Books, travel & zombies
www.robinwasserman.com/ Egads. Lately, I feel like I've been shot out of a cannon and am waving my arms wildly in order not to hit the ground. I'm doing a quick round-up and hope to FINALLY post notes from these events next week. (Sorry, Camp Awesomeness 2009....
Where the Wild Things Are
And I'm not just talking about David Levithan and me. In a few hours, the lovely David Levithan http://www.davidlevithan.com/ and I will be road-tripping down to Doylestown, PA (please hold back, weather) for a gig tonight at the Doylestown Bookshop...
Largehearted Boy Book Notes
You all know what an absolute music freak I am, how much I love it and how much I enjoy having you leave me your music suggestions. (I've been introduced to many cool bands by you, by the way.) So it was a complete joy to be asked to participate in Largehearted Boy's...
LOVE IS THE HIGHER BOVINE TOUR!
Hey, who likes libraries? I see an impressive show of hands. Who likes fun authors and neato mosquito books? Uh-huh. Another impressive display. Nice.Well, you are in luck because this is happening tomorrow:COOL AUTHORS READ @ THE NYPL JEFFERSON MARKET...