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Asymptotia (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Here's something I found rather unexpected. It all begins a little more than a year ago in Los Angeles. I was chatting with a friend, Aimee Bender, about our respective modes of work, and about how Summer fits into that in general. As you may know, Aimee's a fiction writer, (and you may have picked up somewhere that I'm a theoretical physicist) and there are a lot of parallels to be found between professions...
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girlfriday (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Quirky. Fantastical. Playful. Fresh. "My lover is experiencing reverse evolution. I tell no one. I don't know how it happened, only that one day he was my lover and the next he was some kind of ape. It's been a month and now he's a sea turtle." "I often wanted to be like my mother because she had long hair with red in it and to me that proved she was crackling inside." (a story about a woman whose...
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Bill Boyarsky (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
I had no idea you could do this. Author Aimee Bender reserved the Mount Wilson Observatory's historic 60-inch telescope for the evening and took along...
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Asymptotia (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
I was at an unusual and splendid event on Saturday. My friend and colleague, the writer Aimee Bender, organized a group of 25 of us to go to the top of Mount Wilson and spend the evening, mostly sitting in the dark, right up to well after midnight! What were we doing? Astronomy. We had the Mount Wilson Observatory's 60 inch telescope entirely at our disposal!! This is not any old 60 inch telescope...
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Trashionista (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Aimee Bender's novel An Invisible Sign Of My Own is being adapted for the big screen and America Ferrera has signed on for the starring role. The quirky story is about a twenty-year-old loner, Mona Gray, who as a child...
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Zap2it.com - News (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
America Ferrera will lead the 'An Invisible Sign of My Own' cast for the director of 'Mad Hot Ballroom' America Ferrera has signed on to star in "An Invisible Sign of My Own," based on the novel by Aimee Bender.
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Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
I’ll admit it, temperatures approaching the triple digit mark just kick the living snot out of me. As interested as I am in attending author panels at the Festival of Books, the heat makes staying there for several hours a mental and physical challenge. Yesterday morning, I hung on every word by Jeff Loeb and [...]
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escapegrace (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
In case you haven't picked up on this yet, I love the Festival of Books . I plan on attending most, if not all, of the following panels. Hope to see you there! *Saturday, April 26* 1:00 PM Fiction: Novel Lives Moderator Mr. Robert Roper Ms. Jill Bialosky Mr. Nicholas Delbanco Mr. Brian Hall Ms. Marianne Wiggins 2:30 PM Women of Slipstream Moderator Mr. Rob Spillman Ms. Aimee Bender Ms. Sarah Shun-lien...
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Counterbalance (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Another year, another great set of writerly panels to look forward to at this weekend's LA Times Festival of Books. Each year there are tough decisions that must be made, panels that you'd love to see but they overlap and...
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Emerging Writers Network (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
The following is an interview with Dave Delay, currently the editor of Five Chapters (www.fivechapters.com). Dan: Thanks, Dave, for taking some time out of the editing and posting schedule to answer some questions. Your bio notes you were features editor...
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The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
To wrap up Short Story Week here at The Millions, we conducted an informal poll of our contributors, asking them to name their favorite English-language short story collections. The results form a kind of subjective bibliography, a personal pantheon of 45 favorite collections. We've added links to our blurbs and reviews where appropriate. We hope this list will be useful, or at least interesting; feel...
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Chekhov's Mistress (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point. - Mark Twain It's Strep Throat week here at the Parr household, but slightly more fun is Short Story Week over at The Millions blog , aimed at reviving the prominence of the short story form. Good idea....
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures . About the book , from the publisher: Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman's children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix...
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NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
Tin House Summer Writers Workshop '08 Reed College, Portland, OR July 13 - 20, 2008 One-week writing intesnive: workshops, readings, seminars, panels in fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Faculty and Guests: Dorothy Allison, Steve Almond, Mary Jo Bang, Andrea Barrett, Aimee Bender, Frank Bidart, Charles D'Ambrosio, Anthony Doerr, Nick Flynn, Denis Johnson, Walter Kirn, Yiyun Li, Eileen Myles, Peter
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Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Mark Pritchard : This month's Writers with Drinks features: Aimee Bender (pictured at right) (The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Willful Creatures) Ariel Gore (no relation to Al Gore that I know of), author of How to Becomes a Famous Author Before You're Dead and editor of Hip Mama blogger Wagner James Au, who covers Second Life on the blog New World Notes Simone Corday...
