Diary

Dream Reader, Nightmare Reviewer
This weekend brought two radically different responses to my new memoir that caused joy and despair, the alternation of outcomes my friend Carolyn used to refer to as

Does Size Matter?
It depends. I’ve been struck by the attention media has lavished on the size of two women writers: Lena Dunham and Jennifer Weiner. Does Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham’s

Freewriting? or Writing for Free?
One of the nice things, or so I thought, about publishing a book that actual people might read, was being asked to answer interview questions in writing. How

On not making certain New Year’s resolutions
I thought I would enjoy my break from blogging more than I have. It turns out that I like the discipline of focusing once a week, the way

Taking a break and the long tail of hair.
I’ve been wanting to take a short break from the weekly commitment I made to posting my diary entries when I got my new (gorgeous) website last spring.

Down for the count? Breathless is out!
What comes after the Countdown to Publication? The book launch. And what comes after that? Um…? You tell me. The day after my last scheduled book event for

Where were you when you learned that President Kennedy was shot?
What does a memoirist really remember? Mortifying to confess, I remember where I was when I heard the news of the event in relation to my love life.

COUNTDOWN TO PUBLICATION: Breathless Is Out! Read Chapter One Today. (Please?)
This my fourth and final Countdown to Publication. Wish me luck. It’s even in two bookstores in Brooklyn. For the first time in my life (as a Manhattanite),

Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books: the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need, for now, to launch (a k a promote) my new memoir, My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism. Naturally, I inhabit both spaces, which makes for a strangely bifurcated, though far from boring, existence. Click to view both Feminist Friendship Archive and My Multifocal Life projects.