How does one get a story in the NYT?
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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§ ita § - Jul 09, 2006 7:12:42 pm PDT #7770 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
deborah grabien - Jul 09, 2006 10:05:51 pm PDT #7771 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Or what implies that she's unable to cope in realtime.
The entire tone of the essay, for one thing. The entire first half of it, for another. And that she pretty much announces it. As erika says, this is a vibrator. I'd expect it in Cosmo, not the NYT.
How does one get a story in the NYT?
By knowing or being published by someone who is part of a remarkably incestuous little community, or at least that's one way.
Having either hung out with Howard Fast's fourteenth cousin over lunch at Sardis in 1963 is another surefire way.
Or you could have a friend at Vogue. That never hurts.
erikaj - Jul 10, 2006 7:23:51 am PDT #7772 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
That chick's friendslist must be impressive. Or she bribed somebody in Yankton. No, that only works on HBO.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 10, 2006 7:29:04 am PDT #7773 of 10001
What is even happening?
Allyson, it's lemonade time.
Obviously, there's an interest not just in using computers, IM, posting boards, blogs, etc., but in reading about people who do. This bodes well for your book (which is markedly different from that column, but the column indicates your subject is appealing).
Typo Boy - Jul 10, 2006 8:32:19 am PDT #7774 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
And worth mentioning to the publicity department of your publisher in hopes they will take that into consideration in deciding how much effort to put into publicizing your book.
Steph L. - Jul 10, 2006 8:59:17 am PDT #7775 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I am a bad moderator. I didn't even realize until a few days ago that I completely missed posting a new topic last week. I couldn't figure out why I forgot to post one, and then I realized -- the July 4th holiday threw everything off for me. Yeesh.
In any case, challenge #115 (describe someone by the contents of his/her trash) is now closed.
Challenge #116 is escape. Houdinis, start your engines....
deborah grabien - Jul 10, 2006 9:55:55 am PDT #7776 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Wake-Sleep-Wake
Sometime during those hours
when the moon is on the wane
sleep wake sleep wake sleep again
I lay awake, imprisoned by the here and now
by shadows moving in high corners
by even breathing beside me
by the weight of memory.
sleep
Your shadow beckoned: follow
I willed myself to flee, run, chase you into dream
into a place where the history that shackles me might
blur and soften
hone and sharpen
Open this coffin and let me breathe.
I run into dream, seeing you
young again
alive again
whole
wake
In the end, there is no way out;
then is now, and all my nights are prisons.
Jesse - Jul 10, 2006 10:02:46 am PDT #7777 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Gothamist mocks that Times column: [link]
deborah grabien - Jul 10, 2006 10:05:35 am PDT #7778 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Jesse, all I get from that link is a blank page with a couple of VW ads in the left column. Weird...
Jesse - Jul 10, 2006 10:23:25 am PDT #7779 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That is weird. If you can get to www.gawker.com, you should be able to scroll down and get to it that way.
(And of course I meant "gawker" not "gothamist" in my post above.)