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10 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +4 points

I'm going to be in Boston! Currently working on where, but it'll be an evening thing on the 26th of August probably. I'm also being interviewed for Mr Bear's Violet Hour Saloon on Boston Free Radio on the 25th. If you haven't listened to her, I can totally recommend the podcasts of the live show. Lots of cool writers paired with indie music choices.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +1 points

!!! That sounds good!

10 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 2 replies · +2 points

I have questions about the texture of this - was it all wispy and delicious? Or kind of harder and sugary-crunchy?

10 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 2 replies · +2 points

Aw thank you so much! If you are in or near a tour city on that list do come and see me read (if you like readings obvi) and say hello!! Sausagedog is such a great handle btw.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 4 replies · +18 points

um coming here to brag about my book going on presale (On the Edges of Vision - the one that Nicole kindly mentioned the other day) but mostly also to say BAD WORK IS AWFUL and I just had to quit a job that was driving me up the wall with stress. I have a new job with nicer colleagues now and hope you get through this!

10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +56 points

Hi this is Helen here - regular lurker on The (beloved and wonderous) Toast. Thanks for the congrats, and here's a glass to Nicole and Mallory for playing fair and encouraging us writers along!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Books That Literally A... · 0 replies · +6 points

my dad has a preference for buying me obscure comedic books by mostly upper-class english women writers of the early-mid twentieth century although he has been known to champion comedic / melancholic books by french writers of the early twentieth century.
he is also the reason I read Three Men in a Boat and a sprinkling of PJ Wodehouse as a teenager.

Let it not be said that I am at all ungrateful though. Novels/poetry/short stories are always welcome.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Books That Literally A... · 7 replies · +14 points

for the UK:

At least one Terry Pratchett novel (can't decide which)
a memoir by a former SAS soldier guy
At least one of those impossibly cheap classics (like £2 each) of 1. A Tale of Two Cities 2. oliver twist maybe? Definitely Dickens

11 years ago @ The Toast - Notes from Edinburgh · 0 replies · +6 points

This is so vividly alive and wonderful. As much as Edinburgh, however much I might love it, is rather austere (and yes, almost everywhere in it is in a chasm, or at the top of a windblown hill)

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +5 points

I would hesitate to recommend this film to anyone with children or also without children but thinking about having children or stressed out by children or by grief or anything really. I felt not at all in a good place after watching. But it is an insta-classic, so.

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