First of all as I begin typing this at 1:43 p.m. you should know that it smells like pepperoni in…
Date Archives 2014
Cranky Old Lady Reads a Book Full of Shitty Cliches
Epistolary novels are my genre kryptonite. I find them hard to resist and even harder to quit even when the…
13 Things About Rock & Roll Bookclub
Nobody can remember how long we’ve been meeting. Heather thought it was gonna be ten years in 2015, but Wolfdogg…
I Saw Lydia Loveless on Saturday & It was Fucking Amazing
At one point on Saturday night at the Turf Club Lydia Loveless’ band exited the stage leaving her alone with…
Hermit Truths: Every Outing is an Adventure*
*Adventure might be a bit of hyperbole. Maybe. When you never leave your house and a majority of your conversations…
How to Build a Not Quite Successful Novel About a Girl
Up until my friend Kurtis read a NY Times review of How to Build a Girl, I had successfully avoided…
Slumber Party Confessions: Music For Getting it On
My FFJ is going through a nasty bit of rough and thus needed to spend some quality time with a…
The Great Celery Discovery
“This is like your childhood’s greatest hits, isn’t it?” I asked Sister #3 as she gleefully dove fork first into…
Wolf in White WTF?
I’ve spent the entire morning reading review after review of John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van, the debut novel from…
Into the MP3 Deeps: Lucinda + Lydia + Liz = Longing
One of the best things about being a writer who listens to music when they write is you get to…