Today I find myself in very auspicious company. USA Today ran an article on memoirs, and mine was one of the prominently featured titles!! Visualize me pumping a fist in the air, donning a smoking jacket and tulle! I’m so excited I don’t even know what to do with myself other than pass out […]

Writers are routinely told to never talk about the negative reviews they receive for fear that that they will be perceived as embittered psychopaths. Don’t you dare write an op-ed like that other unbalanced writer who went postal on the reviewer and scribbled off a ten-page polemic on why the reviewer should be institutionalized (don’t […]

Voraciously Consuming: A.J. Albany’s stark memoir, Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood (I could eat this book, it’s that good) & eagerly anticipating the arrival of Craig Morgan Teicher’s charming Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems in my mailbox.
On Shuffle Repeat: Gnarls Barkley’s “Run”
Wish I Could’ve Been Her […]

Kamela Cody: How did you arrive at the episodic structure of your memoir? Do you think the structure of your book is telling about how people retain memories?
Me: This is a terrific question – one I get quite often because my book doesn’t follow a traditional linear (Chapter 1 is day one, […]

The very supportive, kind and witty Jason Boog, proprietor of The Publishing Spot (where he’s been kind enough to post my responses to his very terrific questions), has assembled a cool video of my debut reading at Barnes & Noble (you can see my pop in the video!!) and me confessing to my ex-boss […]

Come see me read!
Tuesday, February 19—NEW YORK CITY—KGB Non Fiction Series, 7:00 pm
Wednesday, February 20—NEW YORK CITY—PAGE Series, National Arts Club, 7:00 pm
Saturday, February 23—NEW YORK CITY—Ear Inn Reading Series, 326 Spring Street, 3:00 pm
Also, I will be “appearing” on Jason Boog’s irreverent and incredibly cool blog this week. Take one: Anatomy of […]

*On obsessive repeat: Cat Power’s new cover album, Jukebox. Marshall breathes life in Sinatra’s “New York, New York,” James Brown’s “Lost Someone” channels the lone person adrift in an empty nightclub in the gloaming, “Metal Heart” is soulful, melodic, and will rip the heart right out of your chest. Buy this album, now. Like.Right.Now. Close […]

For some, Valentine’s Day can be heavenly. For others, it’s just plain hell. Take Felicia Sullivan, 32, of Brooklyn. Four years ago, she and her live-in boyfriend — the guy she thought she would marry — were having a pre-Valentine’s Day brunch when Sullivan leaned over and whispered a few sweet nothings in his […]

We drove down a one-way street, once. We devoured a tower of blueberry pancakes in record time, once. We grab fistfuls of grass in our hands, once. We curled up in a make-shift photobooth and had a machine sketch our likeness, once. He let me drive without lunging for the wheel he trusted […]

The lovely and amazing Martha snapped this photo of me talking about (a little tearfully) about Year One. I can’t say enough about how this year has changed my life - how sobriety seems to have opened up the world for me, revealed possibilities. I could launch websites! I could surround myself with literary […]

I started this post at least twenty times, trying to find my way in. Trying to encapsulate the evening. The standing room only. The great applause. The cupcakes, cookies, and pumpkin bread arranged on crystal. The laughter. The hugs. The tight, tight hugs. How do you articulate love like this? I’d be criminal to attempt […]

I will be appearing (hopefully not blathering shamelessly) on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show, TODAY, at 1:00pm EST. Click here for more info. You can also read my first chapter by clicking here. Also, feel free to check out my forthcoming tour/radio schedule by clicking here. Posting, emailing & responses will be incredibly light this week, […]