cool for the
So it's summer again, apparently. It's weird. We've already blown through everything I remember about last summer, the fun good easy stuff, and gotten to the...
queerer and queerer
Last weekend I ended up at LA's 10th annual Dyke Day, a celebration of queer love and family that mostly involved, for my part, lying on a blanket drinking...
mind games
Good news / bad news for you, reading this Tinyletter: all of that chattering about my book actually worked. I mean, I got an email six days after it had...
following up
In the chaos of release week I forgot to say: thanks for sending me money, guys! It was really weird and great to have dollars just like, appear in my inbox,...
industry standard
Last week I went to a party being thrown by one of the publications I write for, where I had the always-surreal experience of meeting in person an editor...
ask
Surprise! I've been freelancing for a year this week, which means this Tinyletter is just slightly older than that-- I sent the first edition to 57 people on...
how will I know
So last weekend I went to the LA Times Festival of Books, which is always sweltering and exhausting and nonetheless very fun. One of the panels I attended...
this field is required
Usually there's some kind of essay that goes here. This week I don't have one. But I do have links: to the essay I wrote about the narrative failures of...
where is my mind
The last time I was in Arizona it was for my grandmother's funeral. It was three years ago, early June, and the heat was already enormous: a thunderclap of a...
anniversaries
In 2015 I went to Seattle to mourn. In 2016, I went to wait. This year I got to go to celebrate. Which also means that two years ago I was just about to sell...
"there are no bad words
for the coast today." - Last week I flew to St. Louis and spent a day bumming around the city with M: eating and drinking and doing our nails, watching...
straight & neat
In the winter of 2011 I went to see Joan Didion speak at the New York Public Library. Loving Didion is a cliché for girls like me—bangs, glasses, lit degree;...
taking care
One of the things I did at my first real job was book travel arrangements for other people. It got to be routine pretty quickly: calling airlines and hotels,...
safe
Since the election I've been taking self-defense classes with some friends-- all YA authors, actually, a bunch of women who spend our days writing books for...
women's work
"And it got late and someone turned on some vintage disco, and all the people young enough never to’ve heard these songs the first time round got up and...
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Not being able to talk is somehow both extremely weird and extremely boring. I had a lot of time to think about this when I couldn't talk for six days last...
process notes
I wrote this essay-- three times? Four? The first paragraph was always in place, pretty much, and then I kept putting together the thousand words that came...
making it through
By the time you read this I will be thirty already, but just now I have an hour and forty minutes left of twenty-nine, and some things to tell you, so here...
held to the past, too aware of the pending
All right, team. Below is a selection of things I wrote in 2016-- freelance articles, Tumblr posts, even some previous editions of this Tinyletter. Coming in...
growth
Every third person I've hung out with recently has observed that my hair is getting long. They are correct about this. I've been growing it out for... I...