Noticing a lot of donut stores in LA

New salon! Coming Friday May 31 at 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EDT - Faith and Fiction with Jordan Castro and Tara Isabella Burton (HERE IN AVALON out now).
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Thank you United Airlines for letting me design the new seat backs on your Boeing 737’s. As you know, I prefer blimps. But it’s an honor to be able to promote such a strong message.

What are your favorite literary thrillers?

Creepy/foreboding landing page after booking parking at Newark airport

Why do people feel like they have to sit in theaters when the movie’s over and pretend to read the credits? They’re not in the room you can just get up and leave.

My favorite time of year, when I can sit outside shirtless and work in the sun all day with this guy

Messy people are aristocratic. I can feel it in my bones that I’m supposed to have a slave or servant pick up after me.

Mine and Nicolette Polek’s friend Vayla, who made our wedding cake, recently became a nun. Vayla’s sister told us that when she departed for the monastery, Vayla’s last words to her sister were “See you in Heaven.” This pic of her was sent out with the monastery’s newsletter…

I see stuff like this a lot, but it’s not true. Every guy I know who legitimately wants to get married and have kids is doing that. Many others pretend that’s what they want — but their behavior tells a different story: sleeping around, blaming other people for their problems,…

'How can someone find dignity?

One can find dignity by doing what he does not want to do, but should do for the sake of others, with grace and without grumbling.'

Found so much of this interview with Jordan Castro beautiful and unexpected.

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Nothing triggers people as much as having their own violence revealed

I became small and unnoticeable, but a smallness where something wonderful surged around me. The smaller I became, the more I could see it. Like a fractaling reveal, tying my days together with a single thread. I crinkled down onto the sand

- Nicolette Polek, Bitter Water Opera

'Will Dan' by Zans Brady Krohn (Zans)
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For Kant’s 300th birthday, here’s a story I wrote many years ago

“Bitter Water Opera is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. Almost every sentence an epiphany. Entrancing prose communicates new depths of anguish and joy. Toward the end, Gia muses, ‘What survives materiality is a story.’ Bitter Water Opera will be passed down from…

Every significant period of growth in my life has been preceded by getting painfully humbled

DC Tomorrow

The tortured poets department

GiGi Nicolette Polek and Jordan Castro