You Destroyed Everything

92y:

Our parents were young, loaded, and deep into their careers in international finance, as well as their self-absorbed storybook romance. My father, American with a mother from France, and my mother, French Canadian, had met in business school in Montreal, married quickly, and planted their shallow roots. When they were barely thirty, Anaïs and I happened accidentally, but our births didn’t stop their business ventures and European trysts.

Above is a selection from the short story You Destroyed Everything, by Meredith Turits.

Read that and more than a dozen other inspiring and incredible works from the newest issue of Podium, the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s literary journal produced by students in our creative writing program. 

So, yes, some exciting news: An excerpt from the novel was published in the 92nd Street Y literary journal, Podium, which was released this past week.

With everything thrilling (/nauseating/anxiety-inducing/heymyBlackBerrybuzzedisthatmyagent?) that’s been happening with the manuscript, I’m glad I get to step back from it all for a second and take in just how freakin’ cool this is for me.  Worthy of my first reblog, I’d say.  Now, as long as I’m still doing the dream-so-big-I-intimidate-myself thing, I suppose I’ll have to add “92Y author lecture” to the list.

M

Reblogged from 92nd Street Y.