this time, last year, i had a nervous breakdown in petco. regular readers of my site are familiar with the petco incident and how i terrorized a poor stockworker, and how my best friend, the chi, had to forcibly drag me out of the store. we can laugh about the petco debacle now (ha! ha! [...]

Feel free to check out the latest podcast of my new show, Writers Revealed, by clicking here. This week was all about family, particularly the notion of the “bad mother” and I chatted with authors Elissa Schappell (Use Me), Liesel Litzenburger (Now You Love Me), Sabina Murray (A Carnivore’s Inquiry) and Victoria Redel (Loveryboy). [...]

now this is something you don’t get at the midtown coffee cart. enjoy the long weekend, eat like a rockstar, and tune into writers revealed on sunday night!
and if you’re hankering for weekend reading, check out my friend alex’s boss lady podcast where a team of smart savvy “self-taught entrepreneurs (from graphic designers, [...]

How much love is enough? What happened to the smiling mother who whipped up batches of cookies and kept a husband, house and home – all with an effortless smile? Does that woman exist anymore and was she the idyllic image of mom? What does it mean to be a good mother? Should [...]

thanks to all who listened, chatted, blogged about and supported my debut show, Writers Revealed. i feel privileged to have been given a platform to gush about and promote the books and authors i love and believe in. i’m streaming the show now and although i’m cringing at all my umms and uhhs (and why [...]

I knew I was done for (kaput, forget about it!) when I paraded around my office showing my coworkers pictures of lettuce. I couldn’t help myself when I squealed in such high octaves: WILL YOU GET A LOOK AT THAT LETTUCE?!! I proceeded to torture said coworkers with close-ups of sourdough, olives and the [...]

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Writers Revealed, originally uploaded by summerpierre.

she’s a writer, an artist and a rock star! she’s summer pierre, a dear friend, a fellow fan of books and all things Plath, a transplant from the very scary [...]

I’m beyond excited to launch my new project, Between the Sheets: Writers Revealed. My debut show will air live, this Sunday, May 20th at 7pm EST/4pm PST. I’ll be live in the studio with a fuzzy mike praying I won’t need Xanax.
Join me each week in a new kind of Sunday Book Review [...]

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there was a moment this weekend that set my heart on pause. it was saturday, errand day, and i found myself racing through the city to purchase this camera, [...]

Memoir. That word conjures words and elicits conversation: James Frey, unlimited access, trend, major book deals, alcoholic mothers and unavailable fathers, pretty girls who couldn’t fit into their Chloe jeans. Even though memoirs have been en vogue for recent years, writers have always been fixated on that one compelling subject: the self. Virginia Woolf [...]

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thanks to all my sweet friends who came out to hear me read from my forthcoming memoir at Lolita this past Friday. judging from this snap that my talented friend gills [...]

if dinner parties make you want to shriek or the idea of having people over for an after-work supper makes you want to pull your hair out, relax, take a breath and remember that, in all likelihood, you will not blow up the kitchen. until this year i used to treat intimate gatherings like [...]

over at Small Spiral Notebook…
Scott Esposito: Jamestown’s world is very violent, so violent in fact that it often feels cartoonish. Maybe its best summed up by the observations of one of your main characters, bus-rider and slacker skeptic Johnny Rolfe, who says “Some great, quaint pre-annihilation philosopher described the movement of history as [...]

i’ll make a confession. i’m a trash picker. the night before the recycling crew rolls up to park slope, i walk by certain houses and pick through magazine piles. i don’t actually reach into trash bins, perse (okay, that one time but it was vogue, for chrissake), but folks are savvy enough to bind [...]

because woman, your cat is mine. sophie can use a playmate, maybe she’ll lay off my grapes. cripe, will you look at that face??!! (photo stolen from jasmin)
and alex, grace is next. be afraid. be very afraid.