Archive for June, 2008


Support Paterson’s same-sex union directive

As you probably know, Governor Paterson issued a directive last week requiring New York agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Since then, several groups and politicians have threatened challenges, the Christian Alliance Defence Fund has actually sued, and the state’s conservative party released a statement accusing the Governor of acting “without giving New Yorkers the opportunity to . . .

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On the importance of what is culled

For years I’ve hoarded some of my stranger and darker experiences, with the intent of twisting parts of them into my novel. My narrator is not — and never was supposed to be — me, but I’ve inflicted many events from my own life on her. Even when they didn’t fit. Recently I’ve been writing nonfiction about some of these . . .

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