MY VIEW OF THE WORLD is always seen through the lens of whether or not something would make good copy. After all, so much of life informs our writing. I mean there is family, after all. Ah, family. I recently was heard to say to one of my family members regarding our family’s Queen of Passive Aggression, aka Sniper From the Sidelines, aka The One Who Never Calls No Matter What Your Trauma, “Remind her, please, what I do for a living. And that I am taking notes.” And I hope you are taking notes, as well. If not, maybe these new books will inspire you to do so.
Hitchcock’s most famous blonde writes it all for you.
Of the Wall Street Journal‘s list of Summer Books about animals, one features a man eating worms.
In case you have not heard enough, seen enough, never can get enough of the Gilmore girls, this one’s for you.
A self-described binge-baker tells all. Again.
This piece in the New Statesman claims that Moby has reinvented the music memoir.
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