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WELCOME
TO OUR COUNTDOWN!
Until the newly-expanded FRESH YARN site launches,
each week we'll be bringing you:
We've
mined the FY vaults filled with SIX YEARS of personal essays,
and picked two fresh-tastic pieces that randomly connect in
some way.
What
will next week's theme be?
Come back and see, won't ya?
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THIS WEEK'S MASH UP~~
Two
pieces about growing up with famous fathers!
4/29/10
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The
Day the Sun Exploded
By
Kelly Carlin-McCall
(Blogger
on Huffington Post; writing appears in the
anthology Dirty Laundry: Real Life, Real People, Real Funny
(Phoenix Books); upcoming
memoir, What a Strange and Wonderful Life. )
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LAST MASH UP~~
Two
crazy-ass jobs!
4/9/10
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The
Big Red Shoe Diaries
by
Paul Feig
(Creator
of Freaks and Geeks; Director The Office, 30 Rock,
Nurse Jackie, Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, Weeds, etc. Author,
Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence and Superstud: Too
Much Information About the Author.) |
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Pornomime
By
Joe Smith
(Creator/producer
of public radio parody program IPR: Irrational Public Radio.
Reads his essays at
L.A. spoken word hot-spots -- Sit 'n Spin, The Spark, Tasty
Words and more.) |
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PREVIOUS MASH UPS~~
Learn
the truth about Peeps in a shout-out to Spring!
Two pieces about the season.
4/2/10
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Spring
Awakening
by
Paula Killen
(Playwright
and monologist, has performed her original works on NPR's
"This American Life" and renowned theaters throughout
the country.)
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Two
pieces about saucy, salacious grandparents!
3/11/10
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My
Grandfather the Pimp
byJeff
Hopkins
(Writer/director
film festival favorite short Draw the Pirate, and P.1.
aired on HBO; Actor Joe
Somebody with Tim
Allen and Sugar & Spice with Mena Suvari.)
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Carney,
A Love Story
by
Bill Krebs
(Main
outlet for literary angst has been the financial pages of
Barron's, battling corporate malfeasance -- in the
"mailbag" section.)
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A
THREE WAY mash up!
3/4/10
And
it's not by subject matter like past weeks. The three personal essays
are by FY contributors who all have just had books published in
the last weeks AND the books are both about the same topic -- MARRIAGE!
(Alright, so it's a little convoluted but a mash up nevertheless!)
CHECK
OUT THEIR BOOKS!
MARRY
HIM: THE CASE FOR SETTLING FOR MR. GOOD ENOUGH by Lori Gottlieb
YOU
SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP
by Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn
And
here are their pieces from the FY vaults!
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Sleepless
in JFK
by
Lori Gottlieb
(Author
of bestseller Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self;
NPR Commentator; has written for Time,
The New
York Times,
The Los Angeles Times, People, Elle, Glamour,
Slate, and Salon.)
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The
Tyranny of Happiness
Annabelle
Gurwitch
(Commentator
on NPR's All things Considered; spent
7 years co-hosting the cult favorite Dinner and a Movie
on TBS; has published
essays in mags including Los Angeles, Premiere, Child, Glamour
and Penthouse.) |
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Two
pieces about a celebrity's fall from grace!
2/25/10
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Two
powerful pieces about losing a parent (and so much more....)
2/18/10
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Lucky
Lindy
By
Laurel Ollstein
(Actress,
writer, director, member of the acclaimed Actor's Gang;
Performed around the country in her one-woman show about
Dorothy Parker, Laughter, Hope and a Sock in the Eye.)
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Two
different pieces having to do with...well...SCHOOL BUSES!
(They
were featured a year and a half apart from each other so who even
KNEW the graphics were so similar? Clearly not me at the time!=))
2/11/10
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Timmy,
Hand Momma her Gun
by Jason Micallef
(Won
the 2008 Nicholl fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his screenplay Butter,
which begins filming in April and stars Jennifer Garner.)
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Two
different pieces about LUCILLE BALL!
2/4/10
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LAST ESSAY ~~
61st
INSTALLMENT :: 1/21/10
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Cool
by
Jeannine Pitas
(Writing
has appeared online in Ghoti, Flashquake, Boxcar
Poetry Review and Hackwriters.)
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59th
INSTALLMENT :: 1/14/10
59th
INSTALLMENT :: 12/17/09
58th
INSTALLMENT :: 12/10/09
57th
INSTALLMENT :: 12/3/09
56th
INSTALLMENT :: 11/19/09
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Means
of Support
by
Caroline Bicks
(Pieces
have been included in the book and show Afterbirth:
Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine (St.
Martin's Press), and on NPR's "All Things Considered.")
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55th
INSTALLMENT :: 11/12/09
54th
INSTALLMENT :: 11/5/09
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Cheese
Mover
by
Jeremy Deutchman
(Frequent
contributor on the L.A. story salon scene -- Show
and Tell, Tongue & Groove, WordPlay, and
Piñata; piece in book Rejected:
Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled (Villard,
2009).) |
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