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• Who Are These Random People in My Cell Phone?

  --the owner of a neighborhood convenience/liquo...

• National Poetry Month: Upcoming Readings and Congrats to Chryss Yost!

  April is National Poetry Month and there are se...

• What's going on, What's happening, How I'm feeling (since you asked, Facebook)

  What's going on, Facebook, is that I'm letting ...

• People You May Have Once Loved (or at Least Made a Mix-Tape For)

  At least once a month, it seems that one of my ...

• Ten Interview Questions for the Next Big Thing Writing Meme

  I was tagged by novelist Katharine Beutner for ...

• Rom-pocalyptic fiction: "The Bleeding" (a short story started after the debate))

  At first I was secretly excited about the new n...

• New York in the 90s: Paper magazine, Todd Oldham, Untamed Heart...

  This FIDM Museum blog post about a vintage earl...

• Literary SB: Poetry + Social Change + Coffee Cat=Saturday from 4-6pm!

  On Saturday, September 29 from 4-6pm the global...

• Love Always 2Pac: Memories of Tupac Shakur

  I first met Tupac when I was fourteen, a freshm...

• How Having a Literary Agent is Like Dating (Only Better)

  A lobster lunch ordered in the spirit of the su...

• How "Pretty Little Liars" is Making Me a Better Novelist

  Okay, so I'm not really certain if "Pretty Litt...

• Upon returning from New York and remembering that my favorite barista no longer works at my favorite coffee shop...

  A few days after returning from a ridiculously ...

• How to Properly Enjoy From Dusk 'Til Drawn: CAF's 3rd Annual 24-Hour Drawing Rally

  As someone obsessed with the creative process, ...

• Literary SB: Debut Authors at Santa Barbara Writers Conference: On Research, Imagination & Connecting with Readers

  The Santa Barbara Writers Conference’s First Bo...

• Literary SB: Melinda Palacio's Novel OCOTILLO DREAMS Wins Mariposa Award for Best Book at International Latino Book Awards

  Congratulations to Melinda Palacio, whose first...

• Jonah Lehrer on Imagination, Grit, & the Writing Process at UCSB

  Jonah Lehrer, best-selling author of Imagine: H...

• Jonah Lehrer's talk on IMAGINE: HOW CREATIVITY WORKS at UCSB's Arts & Lectures on May 17

  Jonah Lehrer, best-selling author of How We Dec...

• Literary SB: Spoken Word + UCSB MultiCultural Center + Coffee Cat + 1st Thursday= Do that again, please!

  UCSB's MultiCultural Center brought a super fun...

• Omg my literary crush is on Facebook, I am trying to like a bunch of stuff so that I catch his attention and show up on his newsfeed (and thus remind him that I exist)

  Okay, deep breaths--I see that my literary crus...

• Postcard from the LA Times Festival of Books

  It's not too late to head to the Los Angeles ...

• I think my temporary black plastic hipster glasses make me look exactly like the kid from "Christmas Story"

  Dear new Gucci glasses: Please hurry up and get...

• Literary SB: Visit The Poetry Booth during 1st Thursday!

  Do you like poetry, public art installations, a...

• How to Discern Whether You Are Conducting a Celebrity Interview or Out On a Date

  When a soon-to-be-famous dashing actor whose fi...

• Jonathan Franzen is an Ass: Or, The Only Reason it Matters What an Author Looks Like is if You're Romantically Involved with Her

  I am probably too mad to be writing this post, ...

• Literary SB: Poet Jane Hirshfield to read on February 16 at Arts & Lectures

  It isn't even National Poetry Month yet, and al...

• SBIFF Film on Fashion Icon Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

  The life of legendary fashion editor Diana Vree...

• Gardens & Villa Perform Original Score At Faust Silent Film

  Gardens & Villa performed their world premiere ...

• Fashion, Film, French Men & Flappers: SBIFF as Creative Research

  Dear novel-in-progress,I hope you don’t feel to...

• Paul Feig, director Bridesmaids

  Animated and funny. Paul Feig joins the Directo...

• Michel Hazanavicius, director The Artist

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