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A very bookish week in the life. (opens the original)
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Something different this week: It’s a week in my life! Join me on a journey through every boring detail of last Monday - Friday. It was a week with a little travel, a lot of reading, many hours of revision, and exactly zero cooking.And if for some reason you’re new here… I’m Olivia! I’m an author of two novels — my most recent is Little One. I’m currently working on my third, called Blue House. I also co-host a bookish podcast called Bad on Paper<
Desk Tour: Ella Berman (opens the original)
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Welcome to Desk Tour, a series where I interview creative folks about their desks and workspaces. In case you missed it: Thao Thai’s Desk Tour from last time. You can also browse the entire catalog of Desk Tours.It’s been five years since I started this wild and wonderful endeavor of writing novels, and I can say with confidence that the only way I have made my way through is because I have found other
A weird, free way to feel good right now. (opens the original)
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Hi, friends. Today I am here with a short little note today about how to feel good. Or, at least, about something that helps me feel good. I woke up in a bad mood today. As I write this, it is about 99.9% humidity outside, which always makes me feel like the most grelim verison of myself, both physically and emotionally. But then I did the same thing I do every morning and I went in my office, put on my current hyperfixation playlist (below), opened this surf cam, and pulled out my journals.Yes,
Desk Tour: Thao Thai (opens the original)
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Welcome to Desk Tour, a series where I interview creative folks about their desks and workspaces. In case you missed it: Tori Nardone’s Desk Tour from last time. You can also browse the entire catalog of Desk Tours.I love so many thing about author ’s writing, but I am perhaps most impressed by her ability to weave beauty into anything and everything — actio
"There's writing success, and then there's publishing success." (opens the original)
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Here’s how I have found joy and meaning in this weird, big, and often bad world: When I feel the pull toward something, I follow it. Creatively and personally, this has led to almost only good things. I’ve written books. I’ve made things. I’ve had good talks with good people over Zoom and coffee, on podcasts and bar stools. Sure, it also led to the period of the early 2000s when I wore only low-slung Tootsie Roll-brown gauchos and those rubber neon sp
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