the legion of lit mags returns!
The 2006 Legion of Lit Mag Reading and Magazine Fair will be here soon. The readers for this year’s event are Noria Jablonski, Elizabeth Searle, Anthony Tognazzini, Irina Reyn, and Salar Abdoh. Music provided by Pindeldyboz. December 2, 2006 Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg Brooklyn (5 to 10 pm) [...]

when i overback, it’s all about paper. this is not to say i don’t overdo it on the comfy sweaters and jeans, however, open my suitcase and you’ll find 10-15 books, all for a brief holiday. the only way to make sense of this? a girl has to have options.
Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco
Spring Snow [...]

my bunnies have officially been burned (translation: i’m annoyed, somewhat flustered, mildly fatalistic). after reading alicia’s honest post and meeting up with one of my dearest friends for tea, smoky sandwiches and a lot of dish, i went home wondering if there is such a drastic divide between publishers and crack addicts. both will do [...]

there’s a kitty to pet, a cormac mccarthy book to read, items to buy, clothes to pack, a minor panic attack that i’m leaving the country next week with a long list of to-do’s to be had, parties to attend, friends to catch up with, a home to reorganize, post-trip plans to solidify, a [...]

smitten with rachel salomon’s “I’ll go”, up on tiny showcase. the somber print is only $20 and the artist has elected to donate a portion of the sale to big brothers, big sisters. journey over to rachel’s website to see more of her stark work (influences include: japanese art, illustrations, antiques and other [...]

i confess. i have a new addiction, and believe me when i say that it is worse than lemon poppy pound cake. far worse than the dries van noten shoe addiction of 2001, and the obsessive collecting of virginia woolf first editions. i am utterly addicted to…COOKBOOKS.
i blame everyone. my coworker who calls me monday [...]

i’m in a creative pickle. i’ve got an idea brewing for the novel (which includes a cannibal, an anti-semetic Jew modeled after the real-life Daniel Burros, and possibly an environmentalist – but this can all change) and i even have a first scene committed to memory, but nothing else. typically i have to “see” the [...]

after the invention of the swiffer and the DVR, i really thought nothing can make my socks trot. but on friday, as i was quaking in my friend’s chair as she styled my hair and put make-up on face unaccustomed to decoration, i gasped. i discovered CONCEALER. might you have heard of this magical little [...]

i’m finding quiet in the late hours. it’s easier to write, to think, to curl up under a soft blanket, to hide underneath with a book and a cookie. a few nights ago my yoga teacher mourned the sunlight and spoke of the autumn chemotherapy (she said “leaves changing,” i sometimes, depending on my [...]

*jaded about publishing and the churn of the book business? jy renews his love of books after witnessing a feat of feats in the office.
*i’m not sure why i can’t simply hijack all of jasmin’s posts, however, here are a few that bump the swoon factor.
*the ugliest pillow contest had me in tears (simply for [...]

Small Spiral Notebook Volume 3, Issue 2 – the all fiction, all the time issue. Contributors : Scott Snyder, Mia Alvar, Sarah Gerkensmeyer, Nova Ren Suma, Kira Henehan, Brian Joseph Hurley, Betsy Aaron, Felicia Luna Lemus & Susan Y. Chi. Cover Art & Photographs by Gillian Crosson, among others.
I selected this cover image, [...]

what’s on the reading agenda? well, after plowing through back issues of the new yorker, newsweek, fortune, time and the economist, i feel i am ready to return to books. as soon as i can get my hand on a copy, i’m reading my first cormac mccarthy. then: duras’s war: a memoir, your [...]

this past summer, after a terrible spring and other sorted madness, i decided to quit drinking for a year. i wanted to be present and i wanted to regain the clarity in my life that had been missing for quite some time. since then i’ve been to parties, “drinks” (which included me sipping perrier in [...]

remember my woeful lamentation that i am not an artist in the sense that it’s terribly difficult for me to fashion sweaters, needles chinking, and that i get vertigo when i hear the word collage? arms flailing, preparing for flight and whatnot. well, i was mildy intimidated when i initially spotted supernaturale’s super-woman, tsia [...]

i get this question quite often. are you ready for your book to come out? are you ready for the fact that your mother, if still alive, might come out of nowhere? are you ready for the reviews? for people who don’t like you to post nasty reviews on amazon.com, send you evil [...]