For the longest time, I wondered how people just did it. Did they wake up one morning, toss the covers aside and clap their hands, I’m done, thank you very much, it’s time for me to go. Coat, please. Final paycheck, please. There’s the door and I’m walking through it. There’s me, [...]

I overhead my intern say, just this very minute, If you hold on, it’s worse than letting go. He’s talking about the intern outting to Great Adventure, the ferocity of the rides. But I’m thinking about Monday, August 1, and my own terrifying journey, only just beginning. And I’ve been preparing, righting myself for [...]

On and on, I go. About something, who can remember, but there is the colliding of words, of lips moving and breaths inhaled, and he’s listening, patient. Can I try something out on you, he asks. I nod, acquiesce. He tells me to close my eyes and then he comes closer. I feel cool [...]

my friends have sworn to make me more music savvy. they have vowed, fists clenched, feet stomping, that i will listen to something other than led zeppelin, deep purple and coldplay (with a sometimes embarrassing mix of britney spears. yes, i too have succumbed, albeit briefly for “Toxic”). after friends learned of the britney episode, [...]

Perhaps it’s shamelss, who cares. However, due to looming (but thoroughly necessary) unemployment status and SSN bills out of nowhere (okay, why must a UPC # cost $300???, a set-up fee with Ingram Distribution $250???, yet I digress). So if you folks have any spare change and enjoy reading SSN (print/online) poetry, prose, reviews & [...]

I just received AB’s latest story collection and everything, I mean, every single book, has been currently and quietly pushed to the wayside. Including Sarah Saffian’s incredible memoir, Ithaka (on loan from another AB).

When star high school athlete, Kenny Romero, treks to his summer job at a dairy farm in upstate New York, he leaves behind a family plagued with secrets and brewing scandals in critically acclaimed author Edgardo Vega Yunqué’s (No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew it Cauze Bill [...]

Last night’s OGC was a complete and utter success! Snaps to Lisa for hosting us gals….one day I will smuggle her insanely cute cat, Hugo, away. Serving up delish spicy shrimp, goat cheese and pesto quesadillas and grand cheese/cracker/fruit fare, and wine of course, loads of it, with sparkling Perrier for those not inclined [...]

sellin’ some stuff on ebay, folks: cookbooks, decorating and home. Look out for designer duds and shoes, and more!

a great deal of my girlfriends have a lot of auspicious things going on to note, so I thought I’d pimp them out a bit (well, not literally, folks):
*Lisa Selin Davis, will be reading from BELLY on Wednesday, July 27 at Book Court in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn: 163 Court St, (718) 875-3677, F train to [...]

Yes, folks, although this is a gal who grew up wearing jeans and no make-up (well, very little has changed save for some lipstick and a few splashes of skirts with color), I will be a New York contributor for the very chic, very divine, A Girl’s Guide to New York. Although the site hasn’t [...]

“I think writing is like swinging a scythe in the dark and finding in the morning, if you’re lucky and looking from the right angle, a mysterious, well-formed pattern has emerged.”
& “That is my job [writing] too, to look in the place I hate to look.”
-Amy Hempel from Why I Write – Thoughts on the [...]

have i mentioned that i am running away? i met up with a dear friend and her mother last night (over japanese fare and cocktails) to talk about the beautiful cottage they have so generously offered up as a secluded writing retreat. tucked away in rural connecticut (sorry, no names released here), there is no [...]

The luminous Aimee Bender (I’m foaming at the mouth for the release of her latest story collection, Willful Creatures in August, okay 8/16 to be exact) conducted a necessary seminar on plot, how to tailor it, how to get off your caboose and get pen to paper, get the story flowing. A writer might begin [...]

from l-r: Dan, Meghan, Nick Flynn, Rob Spillman, Felicia & Mona

taken by the lovely meghan lennox. i’m the goofy one in the burgundy shirt.