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Rachel Resnick
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“Katrina Does New Orleans” trumps “Debbie Does Dallas”
[Dr. Leigh Silverton requested I post this prose poem composed for the Italian literary magazine Le Storie for their Life-and-Death-of-Porno-themed issue. They asked me to riff on the death of "hardcore." It was 2005. Katrina had just struck, and my heart was broken. The theme seemed absurd. Cheap. Irrelevant. And yet somehow became a springboard [...]
July 1, 2009, 1:07 AM
How about that, two in one day! I forgot I’d taken a vow of brevity for New Year’s 2009. So I am hereby allowing myself to post short. Here’s a link to a cool piece the lovely sex therapist Simone Bienne wrote. i had the pleasure of appearing with her on a recent Lorraine Kelly [...]
April 9, 2009, 5:00 PM
Hey everyone, Am I overdue to post here or what?! So maybe you have this experience too, where you enter the world of a new social network, and you get into it, and interact — then more and more people come to the party and an inner conflict springs up. You both want to share and [...]
April 9, 2009, 4:42 PM
First foreign translation rights sold! Prague, here I come!
What a beautiful way to start the brand spanking new year. JOTA of the Czech Republic has bought translation rights to publish LOVE JUNKIE! Travel has always been a huge passion of mine, and a steady inspiration to my creativity. So the thrill of having LOVE JUNKIE embraced by another culture, and the chance to [...]
January 2, 2009, 2:06 PM
How To Shift Gears From Writer to Book Pimp
Writing’s a bitch, but it’s not the hardest part. Once you finish, it’s time to sell. Did you catch the cartoon in the most recent New Yorker? It features a hapless author sitting before a willing publisher with a bracing caveat. It’s hard out there for a writer. I’d like to share what I’ve learned to [...]
December 26, 2008, 7:06 PM
Rachel Resnick is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick and Love Junkie. She has published articles, essays, and celebrity-profile cover stories in the Los Angeles Times, Women's Health, and BlackBook, The Time of My Life, Damage Control, The Dictionary of Failed Relationships, The Best American Erotica 2004, Women on the Edge, L.A. Shorts, and Absolute Disaster. She is also a contributing editor at Tin House magazine. Resnick is the founder and CEO of Writers on Fire, provider of luxury writing retreats both in the United States and abroad.
