Sarah Silverman has gushed about his latest book, The Sellout, saying he ‘uses humor like a surgeon uses anesthesia’. Beatty’s real skill, however, is in defining what it means to be black – laughing to keep from crying in an America insisting that it’s moved on from your trauma
My dream, as it is, is to magically escape to Big Sur right now for a month-long vision quest. But I guess for now the Big Sur of my mind will have to do.
I wanted to post more, do 5 things more, but life has gotten in the way and I have to pay attention. So I’m listening.
Upcoming in the work place: feelings about diaries written for public consumption. The private made public. But as I flip through them, the one feeling I have, overweeningly, is: so what? I could care less about someone else’s diary. However, it’s not fair to the writer. I’m not open right now and I know it. I could care less about someone else’s I when my I feels rife with meaning and history right now. It sucks, too, because it’s so easy to write off the diary as mere women’s words.
This image made me laugh a lot. I can’t wait to write my Franzen anti-hero dramedy for HBO. Franzen! 2024: the story of a writer who just can’t get it right, ya’ll.
“Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do. It’s what I did then and there. I stood up and got into my truck and drove away from a part of my mother.”
Elisa Albert, After Birth: A complicated, funny, wicked novel that I can’t help but underline on my second rereading. Sometimes we get the right books in our lives when we are going through some shit, and this book is it for me right now. It is also – how do I put this? – accurate on what it can be like to move to a place that you didn’t choose and how lonely it can be to try to find a friend in that muck. I can’t write about it because I’d sound like a dick (Elisa Albert is not afraid to sound like a dick, it’s great), but I was very lonely when I lived upstate, desperate for friendship, and it’s such a weird feeling. It’s easier to find people that are likeminded enough in cities.
“I’m, like, such a scholar of studying my friends, she says, dipping her toes in the water back at the beach. Just really their intelligence, being social, and knowing how to navigate those situations and being, like, fluent in that. I honestly don’t think there’s a time in your life when you are more intelligent or more interesting than when you are this age.”
“Romance never does go out of fashion. It’s radical.” – Bob Dylan, AARP Magazine For Monica Murphy, a New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance writer living in the foothills of California’s…
