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Broken Homes and Gardens to be Published by Blank Slate Press in Spring 2015!
Whoa! Okay, I guess that is kind of small. I will transcribe this screenshot for you. I’ve always enjoyed touch typing. Here it is: Rebecca Kelley’s BROKEN HOMES AND GARDENS, pitched as When Harry Met Sally meets Portlandia, about an unconventional romance between two twenty-somethings who begin a correspondence as friends, end up as roommates…
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Portland: A Food Biography Will Make You Fall in Love with Portland
Portland: A Food Biography by Heather Arndt Anderson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Tourists and Portlandia fans may have certain ideas about Portland’s food scene. Visions of food carts, hippie vegan restaurants, grilled cheese buses, blue cheese ice cream shops, and mile-long brunch lines dance in their heads. Yes, those are all a part…
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How to Grill Artichokes without Boiling Them First
Today’s post will be about artichokes. This has nothing to do with writing at all, except for the fact that I am writing the recipe out. To be honest, if you want to make your artichokes truly delicious, you’re going to have to roast them. (475-degree oven, covered, 35 minutes.) Cranking the oven up to…
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Taipei by Tao Lin: The Way We Live Now
Taipei by Tao Lin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Tao Lin is like a robot who is trying his hardest to understand human emotion. Or maybe a wooden puppet who yearns, more than anything, to turn into a real boy. Paul, the point of view character in Taipei, tries to feel, but he has…
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The Broken Homes and Gardens Book Trailer is Here!
As this book trailer will soon make evident, my sister (director of photography and editor, Gina Kelley) and I are no strangers to film making. We got our start in our grandparents’ basement in Denver, Colorado. Along with our cousins, we wrote, acted, and directed a groundbreaking piece of cinema we called “The Forbidden Toilet.”…
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Book review: Office Girl
Office Girl by Joe Meno My rating: 4 of 5 stars At first I thought I was reading about millennial hipsters, riding their bikes around snowy Chicago, defacing public property with paint pens. (I like this book’s alternate title: “Young People on Bicycles Doing Troubling Things.” It suits the story much better, as only a…
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Book review: The Woman Upstairs
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud My rating: 3 of 5 stars I read the now-famous interview with Claire Messud before I ever picked up The Woman Upstairs. The interviewer asks Messud about her character Nora: “I wouldn’t want to be friends with Nora, would you?” Messud responds: “For heaven’s sake, what kind of question…
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Book review: Eleanor & Park
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell My rating: 5 of 5 stars The best book I’ve read all summer! Okay, I know this isn’t saying much. I think I’ve read only twelve books so far. But still. I loved it. I cried at least five times, six if you include this morning when I retold…
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Book Review: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed My rating: 4 of 5 stars I grew up in the foothills of the Sierras and now live in Portland, where Cheryl Strayed ends her 1100-mile trek along the Pacific Crest Trail. My familiarity with the landscape added to my experience as…
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