What are you currently reading?

[dad]

Wow I hope you like making letters.

I’d rather make love

you can f*ck a B it has two holes.

wtf

i'm just saying...

[BurtReynolds]

what does it say about kerning?

So much about kerning.

[dad]

what does it say about kerning?

So much about kerning.

oh man, do i yearn for the kern.

[Simple Torture]

Wow I hope you like making letters.

I’d rather make love

you can f*ck a B it has two holes.

wtf

Classic fucking a B

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[blueviper]

I just stared this. Only 35 pages in and I'm in love. This is exactly my kind of book (so far). I can't wait to see where it goes.

I’m halfway through this on your recommendation. So far so good. Still not sure how it ties all together.

[epilogue]

I just stared this. Only 35 pages in and I'm in love. This is exactly my kind of book (so far). I can't wait to see where it goes.

I’m halfway through this on your recommendation. So far so good. Still not sure how it ties all together.

Nice!

I hope you're enjoying it. I promise it all does tie together. I had three same thought at times but it all works. It's great!

[dad]

I just stared this. Only 35 pages in and I'm in love. This is exactly my kind of book (so far). I can't wait to see where it goes.

I’m halfway through this on your recommendation. So far so good. Still not sure how it ties all together.

Nice!

I hope you're enjoying it. I promise it all does tie together. I had three same thought at times but it all works. It's great!

i started on this the other day. i like it as well but i'm not quite to the point where the stories/timelines are coming together.

still...in my wheelhouse.

[epilogue]

I just stared this. Only 35 pages in and I'm in love. This is exactly my kind of book (so far). I can't wait to see where it goes.

I’m halfway through this on your recommendation. So far so good. Still not sure how it ties all together.

Nice!

I hope you're enjoying it. I promise it all does tie together. I had three same thought at times but it all works. It's great!

i started on this the other day. i like it as well but i'm not quite to the point where the stories/timelines are coming together.

still...in my wheelhouse.

I hope you dig it.

[epilogue]

I'm gonna give this one a go.

[VinylGuy]

cant wait to get Heat 2.

[epilogue]

cant wait to get Heat 2.

I never read the first one.

[blueviper]

I just stared this. Only 35 pages in and I'm in love. This is exactly my kind of book (so far). I can't wait to see where it goes.

I’m halfway through this on your recommendation. So far so good. Still not sure how it ties all together.

Nice!

I hope you're enjoying it. I promise it all does tie together. I had three same thought at times but it all works. It's great!

i started on this the other day. i like it as well but i'm not quite to the point where the stories/timelines are coming together.

still...in my wheelhouse.

I hope you dig it.

So I finished it and thought it was great. I'm a sucker for these sprawling time period books (like Cloud Atlas, Cloud Cuckoo Land, etc.) so it was fun to read. I would probably rank it behind these two, but I think this was her debut novel so pretty good on her first one.

[epilogue]

I just stared this. Only 35 pages in and I'm in love. This is exactly my kind of book (so far). I can't wait to see where it goes.

I’m halfway through this on your recommendation. So far so good. Still not sure how it ties all together.

Nice!

I hope you're enjoying it. I promise it all does tie together. I had three same thought at times but it all works. It's great!

i started on this the other day. i like it as well but i'm not quite to the point where the stories/timelines are coming together.

still...in my wheelhouse.

I hope you dig it.

So I finished it and thought it was great. I'm a sucker for these sprawling time period books (like Cloud Atlas, Cloud Cuckoo Land, etc.) so it was fun to read. I would probably rank it behind these two, but I think this was her debut novel so pretty good on her first one.

Awesome. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I'm also a big sucker for these kinds of books (obviously, lol). It's hard to compare to something like Cloud Atlas because that book is so dense by comparison. But I get what you mean.

And, yes, this is a debut. Which maybe shouldn't mean anything but I think really blows me away. Can't wait to see where she goes next.

[dad]

I just stared this. Only 35 pages in and I'm in love. This is exactly my kind of book (so far). I can't wait to see where it goes.

I’m halfway through this on your recommendation. So far so good. Still not sure how it ties all together.

Nice!

I hope you're enjoying it. I promise it all does tie together. I had three same thought at times but it all works. It's great!

i started on this the other day. i like it as well but i'm not quite to the point where the stories/timelines are coming together.

still...in my wheelhouse.

I hope you dig it.

So I finished it and thought it was great. I'm a sucker for these sprawling time period books (like Cloud Atlas, Cloud Cuckoo Land, etc.) so it was fun to read. I would probably rank it behind these two, but I think this was her debut novel so pretty good on her first one.

Awesome. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I'm also a big sucker for these kinds of books (obviously, lol). It's hard to compare to something like Cloud Atlas because that book is so dense by comparison. But I get what you mean.

And, yes, this is a debut. Which maybe shouldn't mean anything but I think really blows me away. Can't wait to see where she goes next.

how did you happen upon this one? i see from the jacket that she lives in Brooklyn and teaches English in Manhattan. did you hear about it through circles you run in, or did you see it in a store?

also, cool coincidence part of the story takes place in KC, yeah?

[epilogue]

I didn't want to lead with this because I thought it would discredit my opinion somehow or make people less interested in checking it out... but Erin is my friend and neighbor. We've lived two doors down from each other for about 10 years. So, I heard about it from her.

I'd read a short she'd published a few years ago but I had no idea what to expect from this book. I was thrilled that it was so good but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't also super jealous and deflated by it, too. It's one thing when a stranger writes something great. It's entirely different when it's a peer and a friend. But this isn't about me and my bullshit. This is about Erin and her fantastic debut novel that I really, truly love and want everyone to read and enjoy!

[dad]

i get it, and that's really cool of you to promote your neighbor/friend as you did.

i'd be envious too.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

i get it, and that's really cool of you to promote your neighbor/friend as you did.

i'd be envious too.

If I didn't honestly love the book and think it was worth checking out, I probably still would have promoted it but I definitely would have done it a bit differently -- I would have been like, "Hey RM, my friend wrote a book! Check it out if you want."

[epilogue]

That’s awesome. Any good insights to how she got her first publishing deal? Not asking for details, just curious if you’ve had that conversation with her.

It was a lot of factors. She finished her MFA in writing at the New School a few years ago. That put her in excellent networking position, obviously. Then there were two writer's retreats/conferences she attended where she met her agent and one of her editors. Then she finished the book, submitted to the agent, and the agent shopped it. Viking picked it up and here we are.

She's deep into her first draft of the next book now -- it's a ghost story of sorts, apparently. We're actually having drinks with her and her husband on Monday night. It'll be the first time we've hung out since my wife and I both finished the book. Can't wait to chat more specifics with her.