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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Hello, darlings! Meet me tonight at Shakespeare & Co. in Missoula for a live reading and book signing! I’ll be reading from the book starting around 7:00 pm, answering questions, signing hardcovers of Watching Porn, and hopefully drinking wine. Can’t wait to [...continue...]

Holy. Freaking. Crap. I think I’m dead. My book is hitting shelves like right now (preorders at bookstores are in and a few stores are selling them already), and it just got named to a list of “10 Buzzworthy Books from Memoirists and Essayists” by Kirkus Reviews. Rad on its own, [...continue...]

On Monday, June 5—the day before the book's release—I'll be reading from "Watching Porn" at the Pleasure Salon at the Delancey in New York City! The Pleasure Salon is a wonderful event that celebrates sex- and pleasure-positivity in the New York community. [...continue...]

Did you know you can get a signed copy of my upcoming book, Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist, without leaving your house? Introverts, this is for you! [...continue...]

Check it out, everybody! The publishing company I co-founded with my amazing partner, visual artist Jayel Draco, has just released its first book, The Great Nations of Rendaraia, and we are getting alllll kinds of love for our efforts! Give these links a look! [...continue...]

Most of you, I’m assuming, were not able to make it to the SUMMER DEATH poetry reading featuring six Luna Luna writers/editors/contributors last Thursday. Luckily, there is some video of the so-gorgeous-it-hurts poetry of Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein, the vivacious lines of Lisa Marie Basile, [...continue...]

Bitch Magazine, Issue #64 Apologies, my lovely darling crumpets, for not writing you brilliant new blog posts more often! I am in the process of trying to find a new apartment in New York City, which anybody who makes less than a million dollars a year can tell you is pretty much the equivalent of [...continue...]

It's that time of year again! What time of year? you may be asking. The time when we take off our shoes and lay around on the grass? The time when we buy food-truck morsels and have a picnic? The time when we take a free ferry to a free poetry festival and enjoy the summer on Governor's Island? [...continue...]

Come one, come all! Sit right there in the front row, if you wish! You’ll never be able to discern the sorcery of the poets at the Poetry Brothel, no matter how hard you try, ladies and gentlemen. Their magic is real. But we invite you to try to figure them out in public and private readings [...continue...]

Last night I read about ten minutes of poetry at Patasola’s Parlor, a monthly reading and performance series coproduced by Lisa Marie Basile and Emily Linstrom, two powerhouse NYC poets for whom I’ve had immense respect for ages. I’ve participated in The Poetry Brothel with LMB [...continue...]