May 2013
93 posts
I’m going to get a dog in August.
The bosom of New England
Kate and Brendan generously threw me (and their new kitchen) a party last night and lots of local New England writers came (#1 Favorite, Ms. Monica Wood) and we drank wine and ate smoked fish and sausage and sea salt chocolate caramels. Afterward we sat around trying to gossip about everyone but it was impossible to do so, because everyone was so extremely nice and supportive of each other and...
2001
You check your very first boss’s email, as laid out in your job description. He is a very important literary agent who does not have time, particularly after a three-martini lunch, to thoroughly check his email. But you are thorough. Among the emails you find is a reply to your boss’s email: “Do you know anyone who’d make a good assistant for me? This current one doesn’t seem to be working...
It’s been four days since I’ve had a real conversation, except for the waitress at the cafe down the way, early in the morning the other day when I was aching for some coffee. She likes to keep busy, she’s a tidier. She was happy to see me when I came in because sometimes there’s no customers there for hours in the mornings, especially on a Monday. She gets nervous in the...
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