Maybe you should buy a Sunday New York Times this weekend. You can buy it other weekends of course, but perhaps you really should buy it this weekend. It’s a very big paper, yes, but you could just read one section… or, you know, whatever.
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Recent Press and Links
- Essay: A Little House Adulthood For the American Masters documentary on Laura Ingalls Wilder, I contributed a piece to the PBS website about revisiting the Little House books.
- Essay: The Christmas Tape (At Longreads.com) How an old audio tape of holiday music became a record of family history, unspoken rituals, and grief.
- Q & A With Wendy McClure Publishers Weekly interview about editing, Wanderville and more.
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- Malcolm Jameson Site (in progress) about my great-grandfather, a Golden Age sci-fi writer.
- That Side of the Family My semi-secret family history blog
I’m not sure I know what you mean ;).
Oh well, I guess I’ll get the times and figure it out, since you told me to get the times. Are there good coupons? The Sunday comics are usually good. Maybe you want to torture me with the crossword puzzle?
This better be good.
The crossword is really hard this week? Is that it?
tyra, will you be featured in a fashion spread wearing your fat suit?
I love that Big Ben alarm clock (assuming I pinned the right Wendy). Congrats on the article. I’m a total voyeur of people’s online lives, and yet it had never occurred to me to look at people’s wish lists. Damn you for introducing a new dimension to my online lurking!
Yep, Big Ben is the right WMM — check her profile. (who knew — Marie!)
I look at people’s wishlists too. But everyone I know is way less materialistic than me (4 pages), so I’m a bit embarassed by mine. I didn’t know you could put your fist in your mouth.
You rule. I thought I was the only one who e-stalked my exes’ Amazon wishlists, hoping to see they all requesting copies of “Oh My God, Why Did I Act Like Such a Shit to That Amazing Woman?”
So far, no dice.
I also just read “I’m Not the New Me” and it’s brilliant. Genius. Brilliant and genius.
Great article! Congrats! I’ve never even thought of looking up wish lists. I’m sure now I will become a total junkie, because this using wish lists to spy on people thing TOTALLY sounds like something I would do! Damn you for planting the thought in my head!!
Marianne–it’s the only interesting fact about me!
As for the clock, a friend of mine has one in her guest room (hey Amy!) and I liked how it lights up with the alarm!
Congratulations, Wendy!
OMG! Chris Ware, Elmore Leonard, and YOU!!!!! Congratulations. It would have been a great blog entry–how nice that it’s in the Sunday Magazine instead. And to think that just yesterday I was leaving a friend’s house in New York and the magazine section was on the breakfast table. If only I’d known to pick it up and say “oh yeah, I know her. She grew up in Oak Park.”
Congratulations!
Wow, NYT Mag! Congratulations!
I love reading other people’s wish lists…I think they say a lot about a person. I always wonder what people might infer about me from my wish list. Currently, it appears I am a creatively-frustrated, grammatically-fixated, geeky comic book girl with a penchant for musical theater. Scary.
I am also addicted to searching other people’s Wists lists – http://www.wists.com. It’s like window shopping inside someone’s head.
Congratulations, Wendy! And wow, my clock made it into your bedroom AND into the NYT? Exciting! Can I ride the clock’s coattails to fame? Do clock’s have coattails? Should some metaphors even be attempted, much less stretched to the point where they no longer make sense?
What were we talking about again? Oh yeah, congratulations!
I thought I was the only one who went wish list hunting. I feel much better knowing I’m not. 🙂
I haven’t been so excited for someone I didn’t even know since Herman Cornejo was promoted to principal dancer at ABT (2003). The Sunday Times is a huge deal, and all your friends and fans should be making a huge fuss. Congratulations!!!!!
Finally, they put someone funny on the funny pages! It’s about time. I love Chris Ware, but he just doesn’t belong in that particular category.
hee hee! great piece, but now I have another bad habit. BTW, you can order that clock new from, of all places, LL Bean: http://tinyurl.com/3ulv5 (and it works great).
Oh, the siren song of the Amazon wish list… after reading your article, I typed in the name of my high school/college/beyond crush only to find his wish list full of “baby’s first year” and “how to get your child to sleep through the night” books. The dream is over! *sob*
I forgot I used to do the same thing!!! Ain’t internet salking fun! Love the article! You is my Shero!
I love Target and now I have to boycott it. It’s easy to stay away from WalMart. This is going to be hard but I’ll be strong.