January 2011
48 posts
best customer service ever
I’m actually not even being sarcastic about that, I just had the best customer service experience ever with Amazon. My Kindle screen is broken, it turns out, and I was so sure the warranty wouldn’t cover it (since the Amazon website says the warranty doesn’t cover breaks) but before I slapped down $140 of money I don’t have for a new one I decided to give calling the Kindle...
FSG works in progress: Chris Adrian on THE GREAT... →
Galchen: Who and what lives and happens in The Great Night?
Adrian: The Great Night is a retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in Buena Vista Park in San Francisco in the summer of 2008. Three people—two men and a woman—get lost in the park on their way to a party and have a common adventure involving fairies, a monster, and the ghosts of their recently deceased romantic...
“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well-read or too...”
– Tim Gunn (via elizabethanne)
Did I mention AUT is coming out in paperback on... →
Well it is. And the cover is black, people! It’s awesome.
YES!
Ladies and gents, we have reached the Father Bob portion of this revision, and not a moment too soon. (Okay, he’s in the book twice before this point, but this is where he really hits his stride. Caro calls him “Yoda in a Roman collar”, and she’s not wrong!) Father Bob is probably my favorite character I’ve ever written.
“I barely noticed St. Robert’s until I had almost passed it, which is sort of...”
– (Excerpt from The Opposite of Hallelujah.)
Caro cracks me up. Part of it is like I’m channeling her, like she speaks through me without any reference to myself, and then part of it is like she’s me doing a parody of myself. I think more than any character I’ve ever written, Caro...
here's a question for you
How is it that I can keep revising this novel and yet never get farther than halfway through? Let me answer my question with a question: why do I keep ADDING PAGES? I think when I sent this to J and D the ms was 387 pgs. Now it’s 410. And, may I remind you, I’m only halfway through. I actually have a series of scenes I plan to add. It’ll probably turn out being about 425/430...
“You begin by admitting you are powerless…You begin again. Over and over....”
– Nic Pizzolatto, Galveston
i've been watching a lot of Hulu lately
And I’ve seen the Hot in Cleveland promo like 80 billion times. I’ve never seen the show and don’t care to (Betty White was cooler when she wasn’t cool), but whenever I see it I think: as a species we can create Avatar, but we haven’t quite figured out how to make fake snow that looks real? I mean seriously Hollywood.
“My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay (via thesignaturething)
