Welcome Aboard!
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New Yinzer and Yinz
Iron City Folks: The New Yinzer (
www.newyinzer.com), Pittsburgh's answer to The New Yorker, will host a reading/concert/gathering at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 23 at The Brillo Box in Lawrenceville. Lori will be reading with poets Bob Pajich and Kelly Ramsey. Four bands, including Lohio, Workshop, The Maxi-Pads (that's right), and Karl Hendricks, will provide the music. Cover is $5. Hope to see yinz there, n'at.
Memoir Writing Workshop
Lori will lead a workshop in memoir writing at the Kaltreider-Benfer Library in Red Lion, PA Thursday, May 8. The workshop begins at 6:30 p.m. The workshop is offered by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and is free and open to the public, though sign-up is required. For more information, visit the Kaltreider-Benfer's website at www.kaltreider-benfer.org.
Visit Future Tenant at
http://futuretenant.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=255658 for a podcast featuring Lori reading "I Am Not a Zombie But I Played One on TV," the first chapter from
Miss New York Has Everything. After the reading, Lori pod-talks about memoir and truth with Future Tenant's fabulous Adam Murray.
Unlimited Interview
to read another new interview with Lori.
Pencils, Books, Dirty Looks
Ever wonder how you'll use all those things you learn in school? To celebrate the back-to-school season, check out Lori's essay in the Sunday, August 26 issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The essay's called "How will I use this in, like, the real world?" You can read it here:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07238/811957-35.stm(And now, a word problem. If a train leaves the station at 3:30 p.m. traveling east and another train leaves the station at 3:25 traveling west, which conductor has been drinking? See. Useful!)
Poddy Mouth (An Interview)
Listen in as Lori chats about spinach dip, roller skating trauma, and the writing life with the lovely folks at She Unlimited/The Daily Confection.
http://sheunlimited.com/wp/audio/lj.mp3. And then...
Glamour Stop
Visit the luscious Daily Confection and fill up on celebrity, fashion, culinary, and cerebral cyber-joy. Oh, and they do book reviews! This month, She Unlimited and the Daily Confection features
Miss New York Has Everything. Read the review here
http://www.sheunlimited.com/2007/08/15/miss-new-york-has-everything/. And check back soon for an interview and a travel-horror-story contest. (Free signed copies to the best/worst stories.)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe...
Then don't forget to pack the water wings and the shark repellent.
Hey. You never know.
Animaniac
Click http://www.vidlit.com/5spot/ and check out VidLit's animated view of 5 Spot authors and their books. (Hm. Miss New York. An animated vibrator. Now that's something.) ******************
What the critics are saying about MISS NEW YORK:
"A marvel of a memoir... brims with both small-town heart and big-city sophistication." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Don't let the smiling stewardess on the cover fool you. Jakiela's memoir has more in common with Chuck Klosterman than Coffee, Tea or Me."
-- Publisher's Weekly
"For anyone who's ever wanted to make something extraordinary out of an ordinary life." -- Fresh Fiction
"There's usually one person who's just a bit funnier, wittier, more penetrating in her stories than everyone else. That's Lori Jakiela." -- Armchair Interviews
"Take an afternoon off, pour a glass of wine, curl up on the couch and read Lori Jakiela's Miss New York Has Everything." -- Skuawk!
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