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French Edition
Y’all wanna see something cool? Before anyone else gets to see it? Fuck yeah. So awhile back, my book sold in France to Les Éditions du Portrait. I…
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BOOK NEWS
A funny thing that happens when you’re a writer is you find yourself in text and dm threads with other writers, the subject of which is mostly all the…
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A quick note on paid posts
Just a quick note on locked posts: Anytime I lock a post, I hear from people wondering why. And I thought maybe that was obvious and we’d covered it…
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I've got a few left
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Sinead.
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We're not supposed to be in the same room
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Who is Ana Mardoll
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Maybe we're all only children now
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Ripe peaches
a dust bowl story
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Dolly Parton, Nashville TN
on obsession
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The last guy was an idiot
Take your car to a mechanic, any mechanic, and he’ll diagnose you with the same problem, every time—the last guy who worked on this was an idiot. I have…
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Random thoughts
I’m in it now. Goddamn. I can’t hold a conversation. I don’t want to lose it. I pull over and write myself emails when I think of a thing. I wake up and…
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write what you know and other worthless advice
I had to talk to a class today. Which is a thing I fucking love doing and do not know why I get to do it. It feels pretty cool. But it’s also strange…
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Next Week
Next week it’ll rain. Or maybe the week after. No. Next week. Next week it’ll rain and the grass won’t sound like tortilla chips under my feet and the…
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Maybe it doesn't have to be this way
I can’t drive past a prison or jail without thinking about all the people we keep in cages, sometimes because they’ve committed a crime, mostly just…
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Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.
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