A-Team post

Hey guys, I’ve finally put up my A-Team post for this week. It’s a Friday Five, not publishing or writing oriented, unless you count my ramble about The Decemberists’ new album as having something to do with the idea of narrative. Calc-u-later! (Shoot me.)

Have no fear when the waters rise, we can conquer this great divide

I went to the Hanson concert last night and when I got home I was WIPED. And it wasn’t even an “OMG I’m so old I have to go to bed at nine thirty” kind of wiped, it was an “I have a terrible head cold and/or sinus infection and I want to lop off [...]

Music to write by

Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series (like you didn’t know that), famously writes to music. It’s not like she’s the only one (I would venture to say that a lot of writers write to music), but she posts playlists for each of her novels after they are published and thanks bands in her Acknowledgments [...]

It’s a hit

So last night I went to the Rilo Kiley show at Terminal 5, which is, as it turns out, like, right next to the West Side Highway. Walking to the venue was sort of like walking to the end of the world? I felt sort of like we might fall off Manhattan, but we didn’t! [...]

Ready? Let’s roll.

Like I said last week, since I moved to New York I’ve been inundated with music suggestions from every corner, which is totally awesome. A few days ago my friend Nikki emailed us all, ecstatic about the fact that one of her favorite Austin artists was playing a show in New York and inviting us [...]

Music recommendations

As I build up a bigger circle of friends in New York, I build up a greater music collection, which is really a two-fold blessing. This week, after an iTunes snafu in which I thought I had pre-ordered an album but wasn’t charged for it and it wasn’t available for download, Marisa brought me her [...]

My Brooklyn weekend

Wow! This was the most inconvenient weekend of my life! The MTA has seriously jumped up to #1 on my Enemies list after the last three days of subway hell. And, ironically, this was the weekend where I had to be in Brooklyn like the whole time. Not that the people who read this blog [...]

does it matter? if we’re all matter what’s it matter does it matter if we’re all matter when we’re done?

For the past, oh, I’d say month and a half, I’ve been listening to two things exclusively at work–the Atonement score, and Andrew Bird. Recently, it’s just been Andrew Bird. I am OBSESSED with this artist. Cambria’s sometime boss Kathy apparently knows him somehow, so I’m trying to figure out a way we can score [...]

Transit-ional writer

The best thing about having an agent–or anybody who is really invested in your novel, who would risk giving you constructive criticism in order to make it better, i.e. not most of your friends–is that they’ll push you to make it that much better even when you think you’ve figured it all out. Over the [...]

A coworker / Her friend / Then me

This has nothing to do with writing or publishing or what have you, but I’m going to see Rilo Kiley on June 2. I’ve never seen them before, and they’re playing at Terminal 5, where I’ve never been before, so this should be exciting. Don’t love it that it’s on a Monday, but that’s probably [...]