There is dancing all over this city. As I’m riding a rollicking train car downtown, my manuscript reading is interrupted by a familiar “Hey, Oh, Hey” and ensuing burst of hip hop from boom box speakers. Young, lean bodies break dance their way through the car, swinging from subway poles, arms bare and veins tight…
This Week I Learned About…
Dialogue!
This happened because the other day I read a manuscript that I absolutely could not put down. The story pulled me in right away, the characters stuck with me, I enjoyed everything about reading it….except for the dialogue. It was absolutely horrendous. (Sadly, we had to reject the whole MS; there was just too much…
The long-awaited, highly-anticipated post about talking to the Koreans.
So I volunteer at the International Center.
This is like a gym for ESL-ers: you buy a membership and you get an all-access pass to classes, workshops, and all the equipment you need to beef up your English (dictionaries, workbooks, tables, pencils). There’s even the awkward “are you hitting on me or just being friendly?” socializing…
People Watch #2
It’s hot in the city – pushing about a million degrees with the humidity doing most of the pushing. On the upper east side a doorman, sweating in his black coat, black pants, black shoes, little black hat, has broken his usual blank-faced fixture-of-convenience countenance. Why? Because two girls – somewhere around the age where…
Thanks Kelley…
…for letting me contribute a guest post!
Oh, sorry. I think I just dropped that name.
After an absolutely lovely morning working out on my fire escape,
and another well-spent three hours tutoring as a conversation partner at The International Center (More about that some other time. Until then, take a minute to imagine explaining the difference between a hick and a hickey to a Korean person you barely know. Fun, eh?),
I…
Happy Father’s Day
Thursday night I went to The Housing Works Bookstore Cafe and found my way to the back of a line that stretched for almost a block for the MothStory SLAM. What, you ask, could make nearly 200 people stand outside this bookstore in SoHo for an hour or more?
Well, I\’ll tell you…
Several (about 40) attendees…
