two days ago, a woman tumbled down a flight of stairs. a flood of us spilled out of a subway car and stood frozen as she fell, screaming. at the foot of the stairs, a few of us rushed over to her. she covered her face with her hands, sobbing. a boy wondered if we […]

Reading: The Keep by Jennifer Egan, New Yorker article on why Putin’s opponents keep dying, the whole Shabby Chic line, The Economist and the latest Vogue and Swink
Watching: Pan’s Labyrinth (after that mess that was Perfume, this film was a very welcomed relief)
Obsessing Over: Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.
Swooning Over: Nigella Bites & Essence of Chocolate
Anticipating: […]

tagged by the uber-delish alex, i’ve been experiencing massive vertigo over this sort of meme because, quite frankly, i am weird. i could very well offer up 600 oddities rather than a slim six, but i’ll do my very best to whittle it down…
1. i loathe flying: en route to an audit in chicago, i […]

this might be insane. it might cost me all the funds i need to raise for an issue which is still sitting in a warehouse, waiting for payment. waiting to find a home. but when i was approached by the very kind and very smart folks over at NXTbook Media with an offer to digitize […]

sorry for the last minute notice, however, i will be on NPR today (The Brian Lehrer Show) discussing my essay (an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir, The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here) which appears in the fine anthology, Money Changes Everything. The segment runs from 11:05-11:40 and I’m on for ten minutes.
I am […]

oh, it’s been a wrong, a very wrong day.
1. exhibit a: crowded F train, rush hour. i’m surrounded by park slopers sipping hazelnut and vanilla creme coffees. i fight the urge to dry-heave and then they fall into the opening doors. the couple who can’t seem to get their rotten paws off one another. the […]

You’re becoming more and more like your mother, they say to me, and I am horrified. I know they’re right, the nape of my neck has become her neck, my sweat, her sweat, my bosom, her bosom. Everything I used to hate about her I have now myself become. I starve myself, I want to […]

what’s going on over at small spiral notebook lately? oh…loads! and much, much more to come…

JDH: You write your animal characters in such a compelling, unsentimental way. How would you compare the process of creating an animal character to creating a human character?
SN: I don’t think there is much difference, at least not […]

riffing off one of summer’s posts, i treat my purse as if it were a miniaturized version of my home. a photograph you carry in your wallet, worn, sepia, but beloved. i can’t leave home without my purse (even for a quick jog to the gym) and i cart around all the essentials […]

i decided to forgo the gym this week. toss it. lump it. forget it. you can’t always have a win-win. sometimes it’s better to rest, curl up at home and watch the kitty jumping up and attacking the fat flakes as they fall…and snap photos of her as she mews midair.
reading: The Old Child […]

a few weeks ago i was chatting with old acquaintance who asked about my love life. questions such as these are becomming all too frequent: are you dating anyone? is there anyone special? in response, i shake my head, proud, and tell this person just how happy i am. my book is being published this […]

my. life. in. six. words. when i’ve written thousands. revisions and revisions and revisions in reverse. holding up a mirror to face to crack it again. for years, i was the weird quiet girl in the room. my voice was a peep, something that resembled sound but not quite. in sixth grade a […]

planning your feb calendar? i’ll be reading from my forthcoming memoir, The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here, at two venues:
February 7 at Think Coffee, NYC hosted by Ballyhoo Stories.
February 28 - New York, NY: Class of 2007 Reading Series @ Boxcar Lounge (Hosted by Jami Attenberg)
w/Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
Felicia Sullivan, The […]