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When I handed the ocarina back, my fingers touched his again. The guy held me there for a second. His tongue licked his lips.

1.  My mother was an English major at Wellesley in the late 60s. On the bookshelf in our house, she kept all of her poetry books from the classes she took: John Donne, T.S. Eliot, W.B.

I loathe you
But I will let you pass

Through me. Your
Stupidity smeared all over me

Your hot breath in my ear
Tonight I am the only door

Through which you can be made
To disappear

How Muriel Spark revised her own history in Loitering With Intent, and why. 
There was a certain period in my life during which the only thing I could write about was my divorce.  Unfortunately, it coincided with a fruitful period in my book-reviewing career. After a decade of begging, I’d finally hit a sweet spot and editors were coming to me, instead of vice versa, to write about books. But because of my seething muted trauma, I essentially bombed every opportunity that came my way.

Find out about the continuing adventures of Martha by subscribing to her long-running zine, Somnambulist. 1. How did the zine become a book? What changed or was left out?

Linkblogging on its own can’t be a form of self-expression. Or can it? 

I was a late bloomer in life and on the internet. It wasn’t until my early twenties that I got a serious boyfriend and a home connection.

I work in the cheese department of a busy, upscale grocery store. We sell around $3,000 worth of cheese a day. If you figure the average price of cheese is about $5 a piece, that means we sell 600 pieces of cheese a day.

When I was 24, I took mushrooms at a party in a seedy part of Hollywood and got it on with a bunch of strangers in a hot tub. There’s nothing inherently wrong with mushrooms + strangers + hot tub + heeeey, but the situation was wrong for me, because I wasn’t really enjoying myself. My focus was on putting on a show and making other people happy, not myself.

The author of Making Scenes, who was known as Adrienne Eisen at the time the book was published, is now known as Penelope Trunk. Penelope Trunk is a successful career coach and popular blogger.  Adrienne Eisen is the author of a transgressive, disturbing and awesome novel.

I HAVEN’T SEEN ROBERT for five days. He’s working on fixing things with his wife, but she’s not as smart as I am, and Robert needs smart. This is what he told me.