My first novel, The Land of Steady Habits is out now from Little, Brown. It's about Connecticut and commuters, but it's also about love and betrayal and work and ritual and an elderly box turtle named Relic and a mysterious drug called "Peruvian Salt." 
Book Club Chat Tomorrow
Hey–I’ll be answering questions about The Land of Steady Habits and whatever else you might want to talk about, tomorrow (July 9) at 4:00 EST, right here. Come hang out!
“Memory is an imaginative act; first we imagine what we’ll want to keep and then we fashion stories from what we’ve kept. Memories don’t just happen, they are built.”
Remembrance of Things Lost (via catapultstory)
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wnyc:
“Walk through a museum. Look around a city. Almost all the artifacts that we value as a society were made by or at the order of men. But behind every one is an invisible infrastructure of labor—primarily caregiving, in its various aspects—that is mostly performed by women…. The cultural primacy of making, especially in tech culture—that it is intrinsically superior to not-making, to repair, analysis, and especially caregiving—is informed by the gendered history of who made things, and in particular, who made things that were shared with the world, not merely for hearth and home.”
Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not a Maker” (See also: this wonderful tweetstorm)
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Lost Ideas
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Today’s new releases
Oh hey–look who’s on the bottom table. Thanks Prairie Lights! (The paperback of The Land of Steady Habits is out today.)
Ted Thompson, author of our new issue, "The Beasts of St. Andrew's," in conversation with editor Patrick Ryan
What drew you to the topic of werewolves? Was your interest sparked by something you’d read or seen, or was it sparked by (ahem) something you’d experienced?
To be totally honest, I wasn’t drawn to werewolves at all. In fact, when I was teaching creative writing in the years just after …
