Category: people i love
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SundaySundaySunday!
This Sunday teh awsomenezz of Merrill Feitell reads with me at The Writer’s Center at 2 pm. In celebration, I share this, my vaguely stalkerish tale of discovering Merrill’s work: How I came to love Merrill Feitell—and her work. In one of my undergraduate writing workshops, my instructor told our class we should read new […]
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Brian Teare Talks
Also, I’ve got an interview up with Brian Teare up at The Writer’s Center’s blog First Person Plural! The other day, Sandra Beasley interviewed Paula Bohince. Brian is reading with Paula at Fall for the Book today, and Deb Ager and I are reading together there also. After that, I think we’re all stalking Reb […]
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Story/Stereo….ROCKED.
On Friday, The Writer’s Center kicked off a re/newed free event series called Story/Stereo that featured readings by our first two Emerging Writer Fellows, Suzanne Frischkorn and Neil Smith, as well as a musical performance by local band Roofwalkers. There was a great crowd–near capacity–in the auditorium for the event, and there was great energy […]
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I Don’t Know How to Love Him. Or, Why.
I’ve been enjoying the new season of Shear Genius, even if it is sort of the least enjoyable of the Project Runway-Top Chef-Shear Genius triumvirate of reality shows. At first, I watched because Beau does hair and it was fun to watch it with him (and listen to him groan), but now I’m watching because, […]
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People I Love: Becki Newton
I’ve been rewatching the first season of Ugly Betty with my boyfriend lately, since loves it but isn’t “caught up” on the goings-on at Mode. And all this time, I’ve been rediscovering my deep, deep love for Becki Newton, who plays Mode‘s fiercely stupid yet cagily catty receptionist Amanda Tanen. As Amanda, Becki is about […]
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