April 2011
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“After all, the distance any of us non-New York writers have from New York is...”
– Edan Lepucki, Going Native: Writing Place in Los Angeles over at The Millions This whole piece is great. I have to admit that living in a genuinely boring place has helped my writing, somewhat. At least the pace. The role of place and location in writing is the thing I’m most interested in at...
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Books and visceral reactions
When I finished Revolutionary Road, I was in a coffeeshop in the West Village, killing time because I was late for a yoga class and didn’t get in, but it was way too early to get to work. Reading Revolutionary Road, as a woman in a serious relationship, was a very different experience from when I banged through it in high school. The writing was still exquisite, of course, but I understood...
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Dating Jared Leto
There was a point in time where Jared Leto was dating a whole slew of twenty something actresses, and it made no sense. He was in his has-been phase, or he was pursuing his band or whatever (and they are inexplicably big, I believe). But seeing him squiring the likes of Scarlett Johansson and Lindsay Lohan confirmed one thing: the myth of Jordan Catalano lives on. These actresses are all younger...
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