I don’t know if this is about disillusion or just hitting a new point on the learning curve, but yesterday I realized that 99% of the people I admire, I don’t actually admire. That is, I admire the things they’ve accomplished, but I’m not necessarily into them as people. It is unfair to them and […]
Seriously, how anyone believed for ONE SECOND that Margaret B. Jones (aka Seltzer) had a legit memoir is really beyond me. The basic plot smacks of total fakery: little white girl grows up in South Central foster homes, runs drugs for her black, gang member foster brothers… wasn’t that a Lifetime movie? From the early […]
Continues to write stories I love: Freeze!
“I go, but I don’t ask myself what road,
which home, what destination?
I yield kisses but don’t even know
who stands as a god in my unglued heart.”
- Forough Farrokhzad, “Lost”
1. Change of Plan: My much-anticipated interview today fell through because of miscommunication, but here’s hoping for a re-sked soon. Note to self: always confirm and re-confirm everything with everyone, via as many communication vehicles as possible, as many times as possible.
2. Distractions: I’m in the Coral Tree Cafe in Encino, attempting to start NaNoWriMoing. […]
1. Junot Díaz, whose writing I like more than almost anybody. Every time he curses, my heart melts a little.
2. Nathan Englander, who is so nice and smart and his short stories are amazing. I haven’t read his novel yet. He once poured me a lot of vodka at a party, a tumbler full of […]
I’ve got a project going right now, where I’m re-reading a bunch of old books. “Old” as in I’ve read them before, not as in 15th century.
I re-read most of Raymond Carver’s short story collection, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” late last week. His writing is famous for being very minimal, […]
So I’ve been back in LA for a couple of weeks now, which means I’m getting back into my old local papers, chief among them the LA Weekly. The LA Weekly is sort of like your grungy older cousin, the one you go to when you want a straight answer about something you can’t ask […]