February 2011
4 posts
“My instinct about the scientist who decided that it was possible that we were...”
– Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Janna Levin from “The Truth of Fiction” in Science is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society
Things I do not want with my morning coffee the week I’m going out to new editors: News that Borders has officially filed for bankruptcy. Happy debut literary author apocalypse Wednesday, gang!
There are several ways one knows its New York Fashion Week in the city. First, you can look at a calendar. Second, you can spot pretty women running around in outrageously put-together looks entirely inappropriate for the February wind. And third, the subways seem to be littered with tall, thin, beautiful women looking unreasonably lost, clutching NYC Tourism maps. So, you do your part, approach...
Falling Ice and Cobblestones
Today, February second, is my characters’ birthday. The day that, in their fictional world, everything changed for them.
I suppose I’m sitting here—in the real world—wishing everything had changed for me, too.
Perhaps that’s why some choose to always live in a world of fiction.
M