“Did you start taking vitamins or change vitamins or something?” Jenny, my beloved hair cutting waif asked. “Uh, no, why?” I asked as she chopped at my hair with something that looked like pinking shears….
Date Archives 2011
If this were 1986 Wild Flag would be Glass Tiger, because that’s how much I love them
Guess what? I’m not dead inside. For a long time I suspected that I might be. See, rock & roll had lost it’s allure. It had been so long since I’d really fallen in love…
The snooze
A few weeks ago I was having a discussion with Christa where I posited that big New York Publishers like books about New York where characters just wander around in their New Yorkness being all…
Humungous fungus among us
Hey, locals with kids (or fans of middle-grade books), Kurtis is going to be reading at the Wild Rumpus tomorrow at 1 p.m. You should go! What I like so much about reading Kurtis Scaletta’s…
12-word reviews of documentaries I have recently viewed
One of the stranger contradictions in my life is that I don’t like to read non-fiction books (unless they are written and read to me by Rob Lowe) but I love to watch documentaries. Odder…
No such thing as just a girl
Every six months or so for the past decade, I’d randomly type ‘Elissa Schappell’ into Amazon’s search bar and cross my fingers. I kept hoping and hoping that she had released a book that some…