HeyJaredNina Writes Novels :: Nina Kentsis
Writer, baker, market researcher, mother, daughter, wife, friend
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Coming of Age With... Mark Sable (opens the original)
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I’m starting a new series on this Substack called Coming of Age With …Coming of Age With … will be a monthly-ish series of conversations with writers and other artists about the books, music, TV shows and other forms of popular culture that made them who they are, and how those pieces of art influenced them to become the writer or artist they are today.Because coming of age isn’t something that happens only once. We keep doing it.I’d love to hear what you think of the interview and the format. A
How I Spend my Summer Vacations (opens the original)
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When I was nine-ish, my aunt and uncle bought a house in Wellfleet, MA. It was their first home purchase, even though it was a second home—they were professors at NYU and rented their (enormous) apartment in Greenwich Village. To help pay for the house, though, they rented it out for much of the summer for many years. The first time I visited was when I was nine; the second time, more than ten years later, when I invited myself up for a few days over the summer. Shortly after I got married, my h
It's official: the '90s are vintage (opens the original)
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My grad school alma mater, Columbia Business School, sends out an alumni newsletter via email every month with information about research conducted at the school, what’s going on at the school, updates on alums and professors, presumably so the recipients will donate money. This month’s newsletter included this gem: <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="119" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s
Girls and the City (opens the original)
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I spent the summer after my junior year of college in Durham, working at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and hanging out with my friend Deena, who was living down the block. The boys she was living with had sprung for HBO, so I spent a lot of time there watching TV on nights when we didn’t have anything else to do. That’s how we saw, over and over, the promos for a new show called “Sex and the City” and that’s how I found myself on her couch at 710 Buchanan at the beginnin
Elvis and Billy and Bruce and Paul (opens the original)
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I grew up listening to rock and roll, the original rock and roll, on 101.1 CBS FM. My father loved doo-wop and Phil Spector-produced girl groups and Donovan and Dylan and the Beatles and, eventually, Pink Floyd. My brother loved Led Zeppelin and Guns N’Roses, which I would hear through my bedroom wall at high volume. It was on a mixtape that someone made my brother that I first discovered Elvis Costello. (Oh, did you think I was going to talk about the other Elvis?) One of my best friends from g
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