Nancy Jooyoun Kim
This Year I Rewrite My Novel???Part XXI, See You Next Year, Summer.
Next week, summer is officially over. However, it already feels that way here. The leaves have not yet turned but the sky is grey. Here in Seattle begins our monochromatic season; eight or nine months per year, we live under…
This Year I Rewrite My Novel???Part XX, Shana Tova.
Yesterday night, Talia threw a celebration for the Jewish New Year with her parents visiting Seattle and a group of friends, mostly writers and poets and our accomplices or “the people who accept us.” We sat around the table with…
This Year I Rewrite My Novel???Part XIX, “Patti Smith (4) sings ‘Because the Night,’ Seattle, 1/25/2010″
First off, I love Patti Smith. What’s not to love? The woman has amazing hair. She’s in with the coolest people on planet Earth–Bruce Springsteen, Robert Mapplethorpe, the French Minister of Culture. She was raised in New Jersey.
This Year I Rewrite My Novel???Part XVIII, Her Name Was Nancy.
I was at the front desk, subbing for the receptionist, who had to leave early that day to attend some training. The only thing that the person subbing before me said about what I had to do, while I waited…
This Year I Rewrite My Novel–Part XVII, On Losing It to Simon Le Bon.
Walking through Cal Anderson–an almost-utopianish, urban park with a sports field and grassy open areas with winding gravel paths cutting unobtrusively through the green–I realized something. As my friends, Talia and Elizabeth, and I passed the long texture pool with…
