About Face
April 11th, 2008
About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror, which includes my essay, “Concealer,” will be released by Seal Press on June 13. Here’s a preview of the anthology:
“In About Face, twenty-three women write about the simple yet radical act of looking— really looking—in the mirror. In essays that reveal truths about the self in the world and which examine the societal prism through which we view—and judge—each other, the contributors in this collection take the cultural conversation about beauty to a deeper level.”
About Face was edited by Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt. I can’t wait to read the entire collection, which includes essays by Marina Budhos, Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Baumgardner, Patricia Chao, Kym Ragusa, Annaliese Jakimides, and Alice Elliott Dark. (I have many thanks to give to Alice.)
You can pre-order About Face here or via your local bookstore.
Categories: About Face, Essays, Published Work, Writers
Junot
April 7th, 2008
Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. (Yes!) Here he is on Fresh Air, on This American Life, and, below, at Authors@Google, where he talks about—among more serious topics, of course—the eighties as a “perfect storm of nerdery.” Díaz is representing writers on the long path: It took him more than a decade to write Oscar Wao, his first novel.
Categories: Writers
Blake Nelson
April 2nd, 2008
A Terry Gross interview with young-adult novelist Blake Nelson, author of Paranoid Park, which is now a Gus Van Sant film. The Times has a dreamy clip from the film here (called “Skate Dreams,” of course). You can check out Blake’s blog, where he talks of mining suburban life for his YA fiction (on a John Deere mower, no less!) and gives a shout-out to zine girls.
Categories: Interviews, Writers
