delancey book – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 17 Dec 2015 04:50:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 June 27 https://orangette.net/2014/06/june-27/ https://orangette.net/2014/06/june-27/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:54:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/june-27 Friday! It’s rainy here in Seattle, as it often is in June. I don’t mind, but I also wouldn’t mind being in a car on the road between Rome and who knows where in Italy, as I was on this day three years ago, when I went over for Luisa’s wedding.* Let’s go there for a minute. Maybe to a beach on the Adriatic. Ah. Earlier this week, I drove to Spokane and back, which is absolutely nothing like a beach in Italy but is still beautiful in its way, and because I was driving alone, I listened to Girl Talk “All Day” very, very loud and did a lot of “dancing,” by which I mean flapping my elbows wildly while…

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Run with it https://orangette.net/2014/06/run-with-it/ https://orangette.net/2014/06/run-with-it/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:33:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/run-with-it It is 12:26 pm on June 23. I’m sitting at my desk in the window, which, if you were considering it, is a bad place to put a desk. What a person needs behind a desk is something sturdy, galvanizing, like a wall. Otherwise you’ll wind up spending your time as I am today: watching the world’s most subtle breeze blow through the branches of the neighbors’ tulip magnolia, wishing I were eating a cheeseburger. I’m slowly emerging from New Book Insanity. I am so relieved, so glad to have this book behind me and out in the world, and also so, so, so tired. Elated! Tired! Dead! (But hey, Spokane: I’m going to be in your town tomorrow night,…

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Come on down https://orangette.net/2014/05/come-on-down/ https://orangette.net/2014/05/come-on-down/#comments Thu, 15 May 2014 22:37:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/come-on-down Hello from a plane somewhere between Minneapolis and San Francisco! I’ve been trying to write this post for a couple of days now, on trains and planes and more trains and planes, but then I wind up staring out the window or admiring the  spectacularly bedazzled manicure job on the woman next to me or reading an entire Us Weekly over someone’s shoulder before passing out and suddenly coming to three hours later in a new city. Today, I will persevere! I will only read half of an Us Weekly over someone’s shoulder. I’m eight days into nearly two consecutive weeks on the road for Delancey. It’s hard to explain what it’s like to be on book tour, even now that I’ve been…

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Our people https://orangette.net/2014/05/our-people/ https://orangette.net/2014/05/our-people/#comments Sun, 04 May 2014 04:54:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/our-people I’m typing this post from my cousin’s kitchen table in Oakland, California, where June and I are visiting for a family baby shower and have stayed long enough to eat four slices of red velvet cake, get stuck twice in rush hour traffic on I-80, and sniff every single rose in Rockridge while out walking the neighborhood at 6:49 in the morning, killing time before the rest of the family wakes up. We fly home tomorrow, and then, on Tuesday, I leap into that heady, unnerving thing called Publication Day, otherwise known The Day Your Copy of Delancey Will Finally Ship, If You Pre-Ordered It, or, The Day You Can Find It In Your Local Bookstore, If You Didn’t. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!…

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Housekeeping, and you will now have Hole songs stuck in your head https://orangette.net/2014/03/book-tour-housekeeping-and-you-will-now-have-hole-songs-stuck-in-your-head/ https://orangette.net/2014/03/book-tour-housekeeping-and-you-will-now-have-hole-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:38:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/book-tour-housekeeping-and-you-will-now-have-hole-songs-stuck-in-your-head My publisher tells me that finished copies of Delancey, hot off the presses, are due to arrive in their offices early next week. (!) I have a lot of feelings about this, both of the excited and terrified varieties, because it means that the book will finally be done, donedoneDONE, but also that it’s too late to change anything about it, make it better, or otherwise obsess over it. It means that it’s no longer mine, in a sense. But on the upside, it soon will be yours!  It also means that you should grab a pencil and get out your calendar, because I’m taking this show on the road. I’ll be traveling around, doing readings and signings – regrettably, not karaoke’ing…

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Book update, housekeeping, la la la https://orangette.net/2014/02/book-update-housekeeping-la-la-la/ https://orangette.net/2014/02/book-update-housekeeping-la-la-la/#comments Thu, 06 Feb 2014 06:16:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/book-update-housekeeping-la-la-la It is with pleasure, great relief, and even greater trepidation that I can FINALLY say that Delancey, my second book, will be published in three months and one day. Right! Three months and one day sounds like an eternity. An age. But we’re closer than we were a month ago! Look at it that way. That’s the way I look at it in my better moments, the ones when I’m not staring at the clock. In the meantime, I get to present to you the book trailer, or video, or whatever you call it, for Delancey. My publisher and the video team did a beautiful job! Granted, I am not exactly what one would call at ease in front of…

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Nine https://orangette.net/2013/07/nine/ https://orangette.net/2013/07/nine/#comments Tue, 30 Jul 2013 05:31:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/nine I am typing this post from the back office at Delancey, where I’m holed up, working on a deadline, while Brandon and Co. prepare a five-course meal for forty-five in celebration of a gorgeous new book. Deadline: I will destroy you. In more ways than one. But I had to take a break to pop into this space, and to send up a cheer – if you can, in fact, hear me from back here behind the Essex walk-in – that it has been nine years today since this site was born. Nine! I was a delinquent graduate student then, giddy to be creating a space to write about things other than Michel Foucault and discourse analysis and anything described…

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A rare benefit https://orangette.net/2013/07/a-rare-benefit/ https://orangette.net/2013/07/a-rare-benefit/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:49:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/a-rare-benefit I’ve started this post four different times now, on five different days. I’m already tired of it, and I still haven’t figured out how to start. Does that ever happen to you? Do you do what I do and take a “break” to raid the walk-in at Delancey for chocolate chip cookie dough? Do you tell yourself, What harm could it really do if I listened to Freedom ’90 again? Do you ever wonder if you’ve missed your chance to be a dancer in a Janet Jackson video? Shall we start this thing already? First, I want to tell you that I was elated by your response to Delancey. Totally elated. Ecstatic. Even slightly stoned. I’m still coming down from it. Thank you so very, very…

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This thing is on https://orangette.net/2013/07/this-thing-is-on/ https://orangette.net/2013/07/this-thing-is-on/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:10:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/this-thing-is-on Maybe you will remember a day, more than two years ago now, when I announced that I was writing a new book, and that, if all went according to plan, it would be out in the spring of 2013?  And then maybe you will also remember that nothing went according to plan, in ways that were hard and good-but-hard and then great and really, really great, and here we are, with no book, in July of 2013. Maybe you will join me, then, in heaving a giant sigh of relief – more than that: a great wind, a hurricane-force gust – that Delancey is not only done, donedonedone, but that it now has a cover.  A cover!  This thing is ON. I will tell you…

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You know me well https://orangette.net/2012/05/you-know-me-well/ https://orangette.net/2012/05/you-know-me-well/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 23:52:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/you-know-me-well My manuscript is due on June 1.  Hello from the Cave – or, as I first typed, “Hell from the Cave,” which has a nice slasher-movie ring to it.  Hi. For those keeping track, no, you are not crazy: the book was supposed to be due in March.  I had to ask for an extension, unfortunately, because of the small human under my shirt who makes me very tired, and because there’s been a difficult health situation in my family.  2012 came in roaring, and though I wish it would settle down and start acting its age, I doubt it’s going to.  I am, however, going to FINISH THIS BOOK.  If I can stay awake long enough. Each night, when…

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