Radical Honesty
I’m honored to be speaking next Tuesday with Hope Edelman (The Possibility of Everything) and Meghan Daum (Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House). If you’re writing a memoir, reviewing...
View ArticleSnap Judgment
This week, I was featured on the “Breaking In” episode of NPR’s Snap Judgment with Glynn Washington. The show is described as “storytelling with a beat.” You can hear it here.
View ArticleWhere to Begin
Where to begin- the adorable Halloween pictures or the Prince’s lurid sex statues that I’ve been asked to comment on in the press for the last few days? The juxtaposition of the different elements of...
View ArticleThe Perfect Stocking Stuffer
You can order signed copies my memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem directly from Vroman’s Bookstore. Go ahead and call them at 626-449-5320 and they can still get one to you before Christmas! Or if...
View ArticleThai Edition of Some Girls
A Thai reader just sent me this picture. It’s the Thai translation of Some Girls. How cool is that?
View ArticleBook Giveaway, Mate!
The mass market paperback of Some Girls was just released in Australia. The Aussies have been giving me much love and I thought I’d do a giveaway to celebrate. Leave a comment here with your favorite...
View ArticleWinning!
I managed to get this far without using any Sheen catchphrases and today I caved. Oh, the shame. Luckily, I’m unphased by shame. The winners of the Australian Some Girls giveaway are Julia (for...
View ArticleAudiobook Giveaway!
One of the gizmos in my snazzy new web design is a newsletter. I’m going to give away a copy of the audiobook of Some Girls, read by Tavia Gilbert. All you have to do to enter is sign up for the...
View ArticleBanned Books Week
I have rarely been quite so tickled as when I learned that my memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, had been banned. It seemed glamorous to me, placing me in the illustrious company of the likes of...
View ArticleGoth Weddings and Patrician Sex Dreams
Back now and settled after the last of the book tour/wedding madness week, which took me from NY to Vegas to Portland to SF- to land back home with a deafening crash. Saw some theater, lost another...
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