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It’s Hard to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World (opens the original)
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They show you the movie Steel Magnolias as part of the girlhood curriculum in the South. There’s cotillion where you learn to eat with your fork in your left hand, college where you learn the importance of monogramming everything, and in between Sally Field teaches you how to stay strong even as America’s Sweetheart dies in her arms. But I was always more taken with Dolly Parton as Truvy, the strong-willed, big-haired beauty salon owner. She seemed like the kind of person I wanted to grow up to
We Were All Rooting for You! (opens the original)
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My favorite episodes of America’s Next Top Model will always be the go-sees. For the uninitiated, a go-see is an in-person casting call, and on ANTM this translates into five willowy, ravenous girls traipsing through a foreign city searching for the ateliers and show rooms where castings are set to take place. It was one of the few times in the show when models were left to their own devices (relatively), and I think that sudden freedom to make decisions after living inside a controlled bubble i
When the Parisians Are Away, The Tourists Will Play! (opens the original)
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We turn the page on July. As editors are missing from their desks, Paris is notoriously devoid of the French in August. Or so the rumor goes. Apparently there are the “les juilletistes” (people who vacation in July) and “les aoûtiens” (people who vacation in August). But the July vacationers don’t get the same attention. Publishing, an industry reaching for chicness if ever there was one, ascribes to the les aoûtiens philosophy.Or we did. Before Covid, the month of August meant the publishing wo
We Aren’t All Meant to Publish the Next Great American Novel (opens the original)
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Many years ago at a writer’s conference, I was standing in a crush of people at the hotel bar talking to a friend. We were both in grad school, and so the topic of our looming thesis projects quickly bubbled to the surface with the aid of prosecco and anxiety. At the time I was working on a book that took place in the 70s, and I was worried about my novel-in-progress pigeon holing me in a category. I wasn’t sure I wanted to write more than one historical novel, and that felt like a big decision
Two Conferences, One Week (opens the original)
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The last week of June found me living out of a carry-on suitcase which I was, in fact, not allowed to carry on. The planes that fly into and out of Aspen, Colorado are small to match the teensy airport with its five gates. I was in Aspen for the annual Summer Words Institute, a weeklong writers workshop taking place in Snowmass Village. Skirting around the mountains as we headed to the hotel reminded me of the summer I lived in the quiet beauty of an off-season ski resort. Every morning I would
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