Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word Aimee Bender. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.
Right before her ninth birthday, Rose has a bite of a lemon cake her mom baked. It was a practice cake to make sure the recipe was right for the big occasion, Rose’s birthday. In that bite, Rose is overcome with her mom’s feelings of loneliness and emptiness. Rose’s magical power — tasting the emotions [...]
pity the neighbors. i’m sitting on the couch listening to Roland II and belting out St. Paul Westerberg’s “Born for Me” as if my life depended on it. i can’t resist singing the part that goes: i can’t bear to, try and share you . . .when you forget me, then you late me, fade [...]
late last week, Kelly laid down a challenge: “What do you consider to be the most ass kicking top, say, 11 books written, and here’s the challenge, in the last 20 years?” this was not an easy task. not easy at all. i had to cull through all my books, look at copyright dates, try [...]
now that we’re nearly two weeks into 2005, i’ve finally decided to go public with my reading plan. yeah, i’m that nerdy that i have a reading plan for the year. i had one last year too. RP2004 was to alternate between novels and a collection of short stories. i needed to expose myself to [...]
i’m working from home today. generally this means sitting around in pajama-like clothing with unbrushed hair eating pancakes. today, this is not the case at all. today i had to get dressed and brush my hair. i did however, just eat some delicious peanut butter pancakes so the day isn’t totally wasted. but i had [...]
wahoo, i got McSweeney’s 10 today. Aimee Bender, Dave Eggers, Michael Chabon, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Rick Moody and much, much more! i just want to go home right now and read.
After reading Aimee Bender’s book, I want to hook up Mona Gray, the main character, with Mike Doughty, the former lead singer of the band Soul Coughing. If the music of Soul Coughing were a book, it would be an ‘Invisible Sign of My Own.’ The whole time I read the book I had the [...]
and sometimes the book is too good and you have to put it down. it’s like a rich, rich chocolate cake and while you just want to eat it all right up, you must take a break. the book is so good you’ve been lost for over an hour and haven’t thought of anything but [...]
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