The Magic of Found Objects is Free on First Reads!

Dear Lovely People Out There, (Especially All of You Who Are Blinking in the Sunlight Now That We Can Leave Our Homes, Sometimes Not Even Wearing Masks) July is here! Welcome back to the world of human in-person interaction. It’s July, which is known for being HOT and LAZY and, this year is famous for…

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Dear Blix–Lockdown Has Eaten My Brain

Dear Blix: I thought that while I was in lockdown, I would keep a journal, organize my closets, try out a recipe for baked Alaska, as well as learn to speak a foreign language. Seriously! Stay home, stop commuting to work? I was all in! Well, we are now coming up on a whole year…

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Introducing Ask Blix–the advice column you’ve been waiting for

Do you remember Blix, the irascible 85-year-old matchmaker from Matchmaking for Beginners who went around saying things like “Whatever happens, love that”? She led an interesting, colorful life, and readers still to this day, four years later, write to me and ask me to bring her back. Honestly. They send me soundtracks of what Blix…

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An advance look at A Happy Catastrophe

I am so thrilled that in less than one week, A HAPPY CATASTROPHE will be out there on the shelves, in the cybersphere, on the algorithm, in the Kindles–wherever we’re all looking for books these days. It’s a funny thing, having a book come out in a pandemic. It’s…quiet. No book launch at the library…

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How to Know If You’re a Writer

There is no excuse for me lately. I have been writing and writing, and that means that a lot of other things have fallen away: cooking, coherent conversations, laundry, just to name a few of the really obvious ones. Eating and showering are going to be the next things to go; I can just feel…

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