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my dream
So Stephenie Meyer, she had a dream about a sparkly vampire lying in a field with her, and there was some love and shit, and she wrote it all down. Then, something about her vision, her deeply...
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my book, by me, jen
It was in Target, in the women’s clothing section—the teen section, actually, directly adjacent to the designer capsule collection display. I remember this very vividly. There was a cardigan that I...
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unexpectedly dropping dead of memoir writing
This weekend I found my MFA thesis—a novel. An excess of novel, actually. It’s 465 pages long. It overflows with metaphors and is jam-packed with quirkiness and sticky with meaning and it’s got my...
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one-memoir wonder
It is a one hundred percent undeniable, holy-crap fact that I’m lucky. I have an enthusiastic and very attractive agent, my memoir is coming out in the spring, and I have been grateful. I mean, this...
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“memoir” is French for LOVE ME
“You must be so excited about your book coming out,” people say, and of course I say yes. Because yes. Because it’s amazing. Here’s this book I wrote, and it’s being published, and then there’s me...
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perspective
For the longest time one of the crowning achievements of my life was that I had won the Nimrod International Journal’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Short Fiction. I didn’t talk about it much,...
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almost as big or as big or bigger than the next big thing
The lovely and talented Caroline Grant, one of the co-editors of the anthology THE CASSOULET SAVED OUR MARRIAGE: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat (which I contributed to, yay!) asked...
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wanting to be beyonce
“Fragile” is a good way to describe this feeling. “Fragile,” and “vulnerable” and “a little skittish,” because my book is in the world for real now. It is out there and physical and a thing to pick up...
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the care and feeding of your author
LOOK EVERYONE IT IS MY BOOK Perhaps you love an author. Physically. Or maybe just in your heart because love and friendship or maybe really truly intellectually because you have a real connection, man....
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The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage
Update: The contest is closed, but the book is available here! Food is love (I cut your sandwiches in triangles because I know that is what you like) and sex (licking chocolate from your fingers, from...
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