Tonight’s Girls Write Now event at the (gorgeous) Society for Ethical Culture will feature Judy Blundell (2008 National Book Award Winner for Young Adult Literature) and of course original collaborative works by Girls Write Now emerging teen writers from throughout New York’s five boroughs—and originally from countries around the world—and the professional writers who mentor and inspire them throughout the . . .
Colson Whitehead’s Wow, fiction works!, a parody of James Wood’s How Fiction Works, is so light-footed and deadly, it makes most rebuttals in this genre seem plodding. Christian Lorentzen forwarded a link to the piece as I was leaving work, and I laughed so hard while reading it on the packed train home that even the pervy guy inched away . . .
Kate Christensen and I finally met — we’re both slackers — and I learned her 5th novel, Trouble, is out in June. (Can’t wait.)
“I could not forgive myself if I made others as miserable as I have made myself” — from a rejection letter for The Yellow Wallpaper. (Via.)