happenings
A very short one today, mostly just to remind you that I've gathered a few favorite LA YA authors for a virtual event tonight. Come see us talk writing queer...
exposure
I woke up on Monday of last week and saw that, on Twitter, a bad man was having his Day of Reckoning. I was not surprised by this; I had had a bad experience...
where I was from
In April, I wrote an essay for LitHub about trying to write contemporary fiction in a world that changes so rapidly & drastically; it was published today....
quiet
The problem with saying "I'm listening" is that you aren't: you're talking. That's something I've been trying to keep right at the front of my brain these...
around no one
Like everyone else in my demographic, I've been listening to the new Fiona Apple album on repeat for the last few weeks. It's good walking around music, and...
recent history
Friday marked my four year freelance-iversary, which means that this Tinyletter is also four. Which is crazy! Freelancing was supposed to be a stopgap...
suspended animation
I said to K the other day that the things I've been fantasizing about most frequently in isolation are a haircut, and getting to pet a friend's dogs. "Not...
ritual
So it's Passover now. I am on record-- maybe not internet record, actually, somehow, but if you know me you've heard me complain about this-- as Not Liking...
look
My third book comes out today, so of course I've written and discarded three drafts of this Tinyletter in the last 48 hours. Maybe eventually I'll send...
trust
Like many clinically anxious people, I've been unnerved by how the realities of "all of this" (I believe that's what we're calling the state of the world...
muddling through
Hello from my bedroom-- specifically, from my bed. On more normal days I try to get up and work at the kitchen table all morning; eventually I make lunch,...
um
So none of that went as planned. Nothing is going to go as planned for a good long while, it seems like. God and science and fate and a lot of other forces I...
good company
Recently I was talking to a friend about silent meditation retreats, which I'm morbidly obsessed with, because I really feel that I should try to do one, and...
longevity
One of the things about having been writing on the internet more or less continuously for uhhhhhh eleven years now is that sometimes I have a thought or a...
teachable moments
A few days ago Writing Workshops LA, where I've been teaching for the last three years, announced that it was closing its doors thanks to AB5, a well-...
in threes
Every time I think I've resigned myself to sending self-promotional emails during national or global crises, something bigger and sadder and harder hits and...
oneiric
On Thursday I was on a family vacation, driving through the desert, when I got an email asking if I wanted to talk about the Kardashians on NPR's Weekend...
telling
There is a viral tweet that goes "My take is: all 30 Under 30 lists should include a disclosure of parental assets." Not that I have ever been on such a...
what it's all for
Last week I had coffee with Rufi Thorpe, whose forthcoming novel The Knockout Queen you're going to want to read. We talked, of course, a lot about...
visitation
Last weekend I flew up to San Francisco for 36 hours-- just long enough to have dinner with A, go to bed, wake up the next morning, drive out to Bolinas to...