Writerly Deets, Woefully Incomplete
I've got a couple books in the works. I'll let you know when those are available here and anywhere else. I'm excited. So stay tuned, Calhoun.
I'm relishing being an admin for Linda Sivertsen's Beautiful Writers Group (which she started with Danielle LaPorte and now co-runs with Samantha Bennett).
Getting to read at Storyfort's Backstage event is a thrill and something I've wanted to do since I moved to Boise.
I wrote my weekly Full Frontal column from 2005-2017, published in the Newport Mercury. I'm a Huffington Post Blogger and have contributed to Elephant Journal, Rebelle Society (no link for that anymore), Author Andra Watkins' Make a Memory project, A Beauty Full Mind and Darcie Cameron's Belle of the Carnival site, to name a few. Oh, and some years ago, I wanted herpes.
Recently I was a judge's pick in this Boise Weekly Fiction 101 contest. One hundred and one words. Very smol, as the kids say.
I also talked about having breast cancer and exercising in Shape magazine, had something to say here about albums but didn't know it was basically just a site selling record storage, and, more excitingly, LaCroix likes me because I love them. I got quoted once about a fire in my neighborhood, too. And my cat won a contest in 2009. We're big time.
Tanya Geisler had this to say on her Friday Finale. Love that Tanya.
I also have written numerous film reviews and features - interviews with musicians and iconoclasts, and film criticism. Here are (working?) links to some of those:
The Legendary Eartha Kitt
Pianist and Inspiration Dave Brubeck
Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello
Director/Actor Danny Strong on "Lee Daniel's The Butler"
Director Rory Kennedy on "Ethel"
Photographer Gregory Crewdson on "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters"
David Wax of The David Wax Museum
Rodriguez and Malik Bendjelloul, Star and Director of "Searching for Sugarman"
Clarinetist Evan Christopher
Violinist/Composer Jenny Scheinman
Pianist Jamie Cullum
Vocalist Gretchen Parlato
Bassist/Multi-Instrumentalist Marcus Miller
Bassist/Composer Esperanza Spalding
Australian Soul Band The Perfections
Innovative Australian Pop Duo The Twoks
Sundance's Dream School valedictorian, Scout Cook
I'll scrounge up these interview pieces at some point, too:
Zap Mama
Anjelique Kidjo
Bassist Roy Haynes
Betty Ann Waters of Conviction
Clarinetist Anat Cohen
Trumpeter Christian Scott
Bandleader Eddie Palmieri
Saxophonist Grace Kelly
Pianist Hiromi
Composer/Conductor Maria Schneider
Vocalist Jane Monheit
Director Jeff Nichols on Shotgun Stories
Trumpeter Sarah Morrow
Craig MacNeil on Daryl Hall
Of Meat and Men
There are too many film reviews to count (that's coming less from a place of braggart and more from a place of overwhelmed lazy person with eyestrain). But I'll find some of those, too, and put them up. I'm having trouble finding links from earlier years.
Here are some film items from 2014:
"Witchy Women"
"The Trip to Italy": Building a better sequel
"Boyhood": Artistic maturity
"Obvious Child": Where few films dare to tread
"Chef": Hail to the chef
Sex, Drogo, and rock 'n' roll: 11 summer movies
"Fading Gigolo": Celebrating regular guy charm
"The Lunchbox": Constant craving
"Grand Budapest Hotel": A world of pure imagination
Oscars 2014: Of monsters and men
"Gloria": Dance me to the end of love
"The Past": It's complicated
"Nebraska": Family value
And a few from 2013:
"Philomena": Saint of heart
"Dallas Buyers Club": Hard living
"12 Years A Slave": Harrowing brilliance
"Carrie": That girl
"Enough Said": The softer side of Gandolfini
"Before Midnight": THIS is 40
"Stoker": Secret in their eyes
2012:
"Hitchcock": Hollywood horror story
2010:
"Breakfast at Tiffany's": When smoking was cool and homosexuality was not
And then there are many more that I'm having trouble finding on the Internet. Always download PDFs to your work when you have the chance. Because it might not stick around forever. Wah wah. Why is it that (they say) you can never fully scrub a naked pic of yourself from the Internet but you can't hold onto a link of a really great piece you wrote?
I blogged from the Newport International Film Festival for a few years, too. You can find those (and many blog comments for Cialis and the like) here and here.
I wrote manically here on this blog for a long time until I started writing my column and then I abandoned her but she'll always be in my heart.
This was my first job out of college. I love a library. Assistant editing "Quentin Tarantino: Interviews," edited by Gerald Peary.
Education: BS in Film and Television from Boston University, MLA in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education, MFA in Screenwriting from Boston University. And being a woman in the patriarchy of white supremacist delusion, unpacking that.
And this is a weird thing that happened, too. That's me. And I wrote about it here.
I'm relishing being an admin for Linda Sivertsen's Beautiful Writers Group (which she started with Danielle LaPorte and now co-runs with Samantha Bennett).
Getting to read at Storyfort's Backstage event is a thrill and something I've wanted to do since I moved to Boise.
I wrote my weekly Full Frontal column from 2005-2017, published in the Newport Mercury. I'm a Huffington Post Blogger and have contributed to Elephant Journal, Rebelle Society (no link for that anymore), Author Andra Watkins' Make a Memory project, A Beauty Full Mind and Darcie Cameron's Belle of the Carnival site, to name a few. Oh, and some years ago, I wanted herpes.
Recently I was a judge's pick in this Boise Weekly Fiction 101 contest. One hundred and one words. Very smol, as the kids say.
I also talked about having breast cancer and exercising in Shape magazine, had something to say here about albums but didn't know it was basically just a site selling record storage, and, more excitingly, LaCroix likes me because I love them. I got quoted once about a fire in my neighborhood, too. And my cat won a contest in 2009. We're big time.
Tanya Geisler had this to say on her Friday Finale. Love that Tanya.
I also have written numerous film reviews and features - interviews with musicians and iconoclasts, and film criticism. Here are (working?) links to some of those:
The Legendary Eartha Kitt
Pianist and Inspiration Dave Brubeck
Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello
Director/Actor Danny Strong on "Lee Daniel's The Butler"
Director Rory Kennedy on "Ethel"
Photographer Gregory Crewdson on "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters"
David Wax of The David Wax Museum
Rodriguez and Malik Bendjelloul, Star and Director of "Searching for Sugarman"
Clarinetist Evan Christopher
Violinist/Composer Jenny Scheinman
Pianist Jamie Cullum
Vocalist Gretchen Parlato
Bassist/Multi-Instrumentalist Marcus Miller
Bassist/Composer Esperanza Spalding
Australian Soul Band The Perfections
Innovative Australian Pop Duo The Twoks
Sundance's Dream School valedictorian, Scout Cook
I'll scrounge up these interview pieces at some point, too:
Zap Mama
Anjelique Kidjo
Bassist Roy Haynes
Betty Ann Waters of Conviction
Clarinetist Anat Cohen
Trumpeter Christian Scott
Bandleader Eddie Palmieri
Saxophonist Grace Kelly
Pianist Hiromi
Composer/Conductor Maria Schneider
Vocalist Jane Monheit
Director Jeff Nichols on Shotgun Stories
Trumpeter Sarah Morrow
Craig MacNeil on Daryl Hall
Of Meat and Men
There are too many film reviews to count (that's coming less from a place of braggart and more from a place of overwhelmed lazy person with eyestrain). But I'll find some of those, too, and put them up. I'm having trouble finding links from earlier years.
Here are some film items from 2014:
"Witchy Women"
"The Trip to Italy": Building a better sequel
"Boyhood": Artistic maturity
"Obvious Child": Where few films dare to tread
"Chef": Hail to the chef
Sex, Drogo, and rock 'n' roll: 11 summer movies
"Fading Gigolo": Celebrating regular guy charm
"The Lunchbox": Constant craving
"Grand Budapest Hotel": A world of pure imagination
Oscars 2014: Of monsters and men
"Gloria": Dance me to the end of love
"The Past": It's complicated
"Nebraska": Family value
And a few from 2013:
"Philomena": Saint of heart
"Dallas Buyers Club": Hard living
"12 Years A Slave": Harrowing brilliance
"Carrie": That girl
"Enough Said": The softer side of Gandolfini
"Before Midnight": THIS is 40
"Stoker": Secret in their eyes
2012:
"Hitchcock": Hollywood horror story
2010:
"Breakfast at Tiffany's": When smoking was cool and homosexuality was not
And then there are many more that I'm having trouble finding on the Internet. Always download PDFs to your work when you have the chance. Because it might not stick around forever. Wah wah. Why is it that (they say) you can never fully scrub a naked pic of yourself from the Internet but you can't hold onto a link of a really great piece you wrote?
I blogged from the Newport International Film Festival for a few years, too. You can find those (and many blog comments for Cialis and the like) here and here.
I wrote manically here on this blog for a long time until I started writing my column and then I abandoned her but she'll always be in my heart.
This was my first job out of college. I love a library. Assistant editing "Quentin Tarantino: Interviews," edited by Gerald Peary.
Education: BS in Film and Television from Boston University, MLA in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education, MFA in Screenwriting from Boston University. And being a woman in the patriarchy of white supremacist delusion, unpacking that.
And this is a weird thing that happened, too. That's me. And I wrote about it here.