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Koren

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About Me



My Interests

Making up, making out, making books, making babies, making progress, making history, making it all up as I go along.

I'd like to meet:

the artful, the obiter-cool, the blurred, the moved, the imageless, the shaken, the hopeful, the haunted and people with unshuttered hearts.

Movies:

I'm watching:
Alyssa Fedele's 'With the Sun'

Books:

I'm reading:
A.M. Homes' "The Mistress's Daughter"
Peter Carey's "Theft"
Melissa Plaut's "Hack"
James Salant's "Leaving Dirty Jersey"
Aurelie Sheehan's "The Anxiety of Everyday Objects"
Phil Lamarche's "American Youth"
Molly Crabapple & John Leavitt's "Dr. Sketchy's Official Rainy Day Colouring Book"
Lewis Hyde's "The Gift"
Richard Ford's "The Lay of the Land"
Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"
David Mitchell's "Black Swan Green"
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Jennifer Eagen's "The Keep"
Amy Hempel's "Collected Stories"
T.C. Boyle's "Talk Talk"
A.M. Homes' "This Book Will Save Your Life"
Nicole Krauss' "A Man Walks Into a Room"
Katherine Dunn's "Geek Love"
Mary Karr's "Sinners Welcome"
Wislawa Szymborska's Poems New and Collected
Noria Jablonski's "Human Oddities"
Simon Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything: Story of the Oxford English Dictionary"
Danielle Trussoni's "Falling Through the Earth"
Colleen Curran's "Whores on the Hill"
Benjamin Kunkel's "Indecision"
FOUND magazine
n+1
and every word Italo Calvino's ever written.

Heroes:

Marie-Laure de Noailles
Mena Suvari

My Details

Sexual Orientation Monsters.
Relationship Status Resplendent.
Body Type Small & scrappy.
Height Standing 6-foot-1 (instead of 5-foot-2)
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Planetary Sign Venus
Occupation Writer, streetfighter, ankle-biter

My Blog

My Favorite New Words Without English Equivalents

Hello gang,I'm desperately sorry that I've been out of touch. Sufficed to say, I am lock-stock-and-loaded with exciting new tidbits that I'll share with you soon. In the meantime, I thought I'd show...
Posted by Koren on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:29:00 PST

One more reason why I love this book...

It has a Youtube trailer.What, you say you want to pre-order it? By all means, don't let mestand in your way.Oh, and yes. My own six-word memoir is stashed away in there too.Koren xx...
Posted by Koren on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:29:00 PST

A Highly Important P.S.

Okay, how lazy am I? So lazy, in fact, that even in my last lazy post I forgot to tell you aboutFlying the Ama, a documentary currently in production by two gorgeous filmmakers (my very best friend a...
Posted by Koren on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:28:00 PST

A week off: thoughts from friends...

Dear smashlings,Your heroic leader (a chapter-churning machine) is deep into writing and taking a short spell offfrom her weekly list of book recommendations. I do love our weekly comminques though, ...
Posted by Koren on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:42:00 PST

Notes from the Margins of Library Books, Volume 5 (the Halloween edition)

Oh my inamoratos,It's that time again, isn't it? Time to compare library lists? My fines at the moment are grotesque; I'm going to have sell some eggs and use the proceeds to settle my late fees at ...
Posted by Koren on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:45:00 PST

Book Tour Blog: Hey Bulldog

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2007YALE UNIVERSITYNEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUTEvidently, New Haven is the birthplace of the Frisbee. At least that's what Rebecca Schrier, Yale's infinitely adorable Student Health ...
Posted by Koren on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:53:00 PST

Notes from the Margins of Library Books, Volume 4

My dear pork pies,Does this note find you well? How well? Does it find you absorbed in autumnal behavior? Are you, at this very moment, shawled in wool? Bare-assed and sprawled across a bearskin? D...
Posted by Koren on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:47:00 PST

Notes from the Margins of Library Books, Volume 3

My hot, hot bibliophiles:You've been waiting for my weekly book recommendations, haven't you? In its absence,you've hardly known what to affix your eyeballs to! You've tried reading the Yellow Pages...
Posted by Koren on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:47:00 PST

Instruments of Anger...

Holy smokes!Thanks to all my friends who helped me with an essay by chiming in their tactics for managing anger and other pissy tendencies... I had no idea I knew so many furious people! Demons, all ...
Posted by Koren on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:29:00 PST

Book Tour Blog: A Day Among (Hocka)daisies

Thou liv'st with less ambitious aim,Yet hast not gone without thy fame;Thou art indeed by many a claimThe Poet's darling."- William Wordsworth's "To The Daisy"............................................
Posted by Koren on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:04:00 PST