FRESH YARN * The Online Salon for personal essays * ARCHIVES

13th INSTALLMENT : 11/5/04

The Second Coming
by Hilary Shepard
(Former member of The Groundlings; Producer of documentary Searching for Debra Winger; Author of upcoming book Boy Crazy!.)

To Live and Die in LA
by Beth Lapides
(Commentator on NPR's All Things Considered; TV appearances Politically Incorrect, Sex and the City; Host and creator of L.A.'s Un-Cabaret and Say the Word.)

Turning Japanese
by Andy Corren
(Writer and performer NY's Westbeth Theatre, LA's Comedy Central Stage, HBO Workspace, etc. Recently appeared in the smash-hit Hollywood Hellhouse.

Is Boss Hog Really the Boss?
by Scott Nankivel
(Writer The Tonight Show, book of short stories Fargo: Behind the Glitz and the Glamour and upcoming novel Beautiful Freak.)

My Homeless Boyfriend
by Jen Sincero
(Author, Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, in development at HBO, and the upcoming The Straight Girl's Guide To Sleeping With Chicks [Simon & Schuster].)

What I Want to be When I Grow Up: and/or How I Spent My Summer Vacation
by Gloria Nagy
(Author of eight novels including the best seller A House In The Hamptons and Looking for Leo, adapted as a mini-series for CBS.)

14th INSTALLMENT : 11/19/04

In the Closet with Barbie
by Harlyn Aizley
(Author bestseller Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor and The Other Mother; Pieces in 96 Inc., Berkeley Fiction Review, Boston Magazine, The South Carolina Review.)

Pap and Circumstance
by Anthony Del Broccolo
(TV writer Drake & Josh and All That; performs at Show and Tell, an essay reading series in Los Angeles.)

Three Questions
by Pamela Ribon
(Author bestseller Why Girls are Weird and upcoming Cold Feet and Pick Me [both Downtown Press]; Creator of cult classic stage show Call Us Crazy: The Anne Heche Monologues and acclaimed website pamie.com.)

Celebrity Slut
by Scott Keneally
(Essays have been featured in Jane, Nylon and McSweeneys; writes treatments for music video and commercial directors. )

Blahnik's Bag
by David Israel
(Author Behind Everyman [Random House/Ballantine January 2005]; Composer, commissions for Twyla Tharp Dance and the American Symphony Orchestra.)

Love Notion #9
by Kate Nielsen
(TV writer The Naked Truth [NBC, starring Tea Leoni], Brother's Keeper [ABC] and Movie Stars [WB, starring Harry Hamlin].)