From the monthly archives:
What do you do with cupcakes gone awry? Judge them, of course! (And then eat them.) Luckily, all the cupcake contest entries from Saturday’s event were utterly wrecktastic (it’s a good thing, I promise). The entries trickled in during a hilarious slide show of some of Jen and her husband’s favorite Cake Wrecks, followed by [...]
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As many reviewers of my novels have noted, my characters tend toward worry. Can they fit in, and should they? Will they be noticed, and by whom? Will they find, within themselves, the capacity and talent to leave the sort of mark they hope to someday leave upon the world? My characters live with doubt, [...]
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Ladies and Gentlemen, it is that time again. The time for…. CUPCAKES. Some of you may remember the highly successful Cupcake Bake-off Vroman’s held last August. From what I hear, it was kind of amazing. Looking at the pictures from the event makes me want to eat lots of cupcakes. Luckily, on June 26th, that [...]
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In light of my recent post on the New Yorker’s 20 authors under 40, I thought it was important to mention another list: the Ward Six Blog’s list of 10 Authors Over 80. All of them are still alive, many of them are still writing, and while some are obvious choices (Harper Lee, Beverly Cleary), [...]
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Yesterday, the New Yorker published a list of 20 fiction author under 40 to watch in the coming years. The list hasn’t been published since 1999, but back then they picked some authors who did, in fact, turn out to be great – Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Díaz, and Jeffrey Eugenides, among others. The new list [...]
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