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Welcome Aboard!
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* Modernformations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue -- Friday, Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. New Yinzer release party for Nicole Sebula's My Crazy Life. $3. With Kristopher Collins, Scott Silsbe, and band The Plat Maps.
* Chatham University -- Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 8 p.m., Mellon Living Room. Free. For more info, call 412-365-1190 or e-mail sstgermain@chatham.edu.
Planting Olives
If you missed Lori's essay -- a piece about mortality, high art from Woolworth's, and most of all love and hope -- in the Sunday, August 3 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, you can still read it here: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08216/901199-35.stm.
Poddy Mouth (Part two)
Ligonier Valley Writers Conference
Lori was on the faculty, along with Damien Dressick (fiction), Nancy Krygowski (poetry), and Casey Daniels (mystery).
Yinzer 4evR
Visit the latest issue of The New Yinzer and read Lori's take on motherhood, bridges, and breast size: "The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious" -- http://www.newyinzer.com/4.html (And don't miss new work by the wonderful Adam Matcho (a.k.a. the Yinzer's Mall Correspondent) and Bob Pajich's memorial to the great Myron Cope.)
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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