January 2012
1 post
Update!
I’ll be blogging in a few new places for the time being:
diariumcollective.com (a new collaboration with Kate) and
exquisitemistake.net (for the CalArts school of Theater’s development of The Portrait of a Lady)
Enjoy!
xA
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
10 posts
Day Four
I was laying by the pool yesterday, shading my eyes from the sun and listening to the voices around me- mostly European, mostly male and all loud. The sunshine felt weird and intrusive but also really important, like if I wasn’t in the sun I was probably doing something wrong. Or missing the point entirely.
I tried to sleep last night and couldn’t and the only thing on TV was a...
June 2010
13 posts
Retroactive
When I was nine or ten, there was an article in American Girl magazine that was something like 100 Ideas For Summer. The only one I remember was putting your pillowcase in the freezer before you went to bed to keep it cool while you slept. I just convinced Katrina that this was a good idea so we folded our pillowcases into fourths and put them in the freezer in plastic bags. We argued over the...
Punch and release
I was standing under an air conditioning vent for most of the show so my legs were goosebumped despite all the people and the heat. The show was good. Surprisingly good, but by the fifth encore we were in the back at the bar. I was tired and hadn’t eaten dinner yet and wasn’t really sure why I was there. I kept seeing people I knew and people I thought I knew and it was one of...
June 17th
I was up early this morning which felt fresh and really satisfying. I sat and had a coffee at that place near 28th and started rereading Twyla Tharp’s book about creative habits. Early morning is the best time for everything- sleeping, reading, writing, staying in bed, getting outside. Tacking on an extra hour or two to my morning always seems to expand the day in every direction. The...
"As women writers, we must demand the best of... →
Topography
Yesterday was possibly the most perfect day of weather I’ve ever experienced in my life. I opened up all the windows in our office and then spent the evening on a patio at 70th and Columbus splitting a bottle of wine and watching the sun set in between the streets.
I’ve been interviewing a lot of people for my replacement over the past week and remembering very clearly when I came...
DANCE in Charleston
Lucinda & co. at the Spoleto Festival last weekend.
April 2010
9 posts
Saturdays in April
“It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences… but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.”
Them at my age, give or take a few years
March 2010
33 posts
The basics
I have a pretty focused list of things I’m trying to improve about myself and at the top is my relationship with my work. In playwriting, the writing part is only about 25% of the battle (next comes the sending it out to theaters, the revising, the workshopping and ideally the producing) and in the past whenever I finished a play I’d be so sick of it that I would purposefully drag my...
Adieu Mon Coeur;
Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A...
Four Tet, Antony guest on new Laurie Anderson... →
Lady Godivas
Last Friday I waited for the bus in an area of New York that could only be described as fleshy- lots of inexplicably bare midriffs, doughy chins, protruding breasts, etc.
At first it was sort of mesmerizing to see all these women poured prematurely into summer dresses. Then it started to make me sick to my stomach- my eyes had involuntarily feasted on too many obvious and freely-offered patches...
Weekend exertion
Sunning myself, eating cake, watching past seasons of Mad Men.
I love getting out of New York.
Friday
Today at 2:00 it was hot. Not warm or breezy but actually hot, especially in the sunshine which seemed to be bleeding onto every possible stretch of sidewalk.
I walked down towards 18th for lunch and passed the guy with the card table of ratty paperbacks for $5. It’s a great selection of books and there’s always someone browsing. I’ve always wanted to take a picture of the...
