Okay so I interviewed myself and this is how it turned out.
Hey Julia! Can you tell us about your upcoming book, Tonight, and Other Stories about New York City?
Oh, it’s fantastic! It’s a collection of short stories that take place in New York City, with a sex and drugs and dance music mystery novella capping it off. Covering the city from C [...]
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Q & A with Julia Noël Goldman
Okay so I interviewed myself and this is how it turned out.
Hey Julia! Can you tell us about your upcoming book, Tonight, and Other Stories about New York City?
Oh, it’s fantastic! It’s a collection of short stories that take place in New York City, with a sex and drugs and dance music mystery novella capping it off. Covering the city from C [...]
Coney Island: A Million Different Pas...
As I watch Manhattan’s continuing transformation into an overpriced mall, I find it difficult to believe that change is by nature positive. I walk around ranting and pointing—that was St Vincent’s Hospital! That was the Jefferson Market and so was Sammy’s Noodle Shop! That’s where my favorite movie theater used to be. I’m told I should get ov [...]
Center Blog: Marina de la Torre on Re...
Center Blog Guest Post by Marina de la Torre
Center Hosts Lesbian Erotica Reading Event
On Wednesday, April 18, the Center hosted Read our… Lips: Reading from the Best Lesbian Erotica.
Right before 7pm, mostly women start to gather in one of the Center’s rooms waiting in anticipation for the event to start. Over 25 women are present; [...]
HoneyPot’s Crust
HoneyPot Atkinson-Goldman, April 2012
Our most ferocious and beloved HoneyPot has seasonal feline atopic dermatitis, an inhalant allergy. It displays on her skin as either crust or hard black gunk, causing itching, pain, or discomfort, depending. We spent hundreds of dollars in veterinary and related costs, and endless hours of research in a [...]
Read My Lips
Reading Erotica At The Center
REPORT BACK: Center Authors Series: Read My Lips: Best Lesbian Erotica 2012 at the LGBT Center in NYC was on April 18th, 2012. My fellow readers were Ali Oh, Dl King, Anne Grip, Sinclair Sexsmith, and Kathleen Warnock. It was a great reading, full of sex and wine and lots of laughter. Things got a little crazy af [...]
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READINGS
Reading sexy words in front of people @ Bluestockings
The Best Lesbian and Gay Erotica reading at Bluestockings in February was a good time. The stories were all sexy and humorous, and many fabulous people attended.
Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. If you [...]
Songwriting
A thousand years ago, when I was in high school, I took a songwriting course at Carnegie Hall. I wrote a love song that, in retrospect is painfully cliched. In college, I had a friend with a guitar, and we wrote some love songs that were not completely terrible. I can still sing parts of them– the cassette tapes we recorded are around h [...]
It’s A Helluva Town!
One of the few things I like about the world in 2012 is how quickly a talented person can get famous. The Internet provides the platform, and it’s up to you to create the 15 minutes of fame that will skyrocket you to stardom. The present rash of “Shit BLANKS Say” videos allows anyone to jump on its coattails. It’s wonderful to see so much cul [...]
Best Lesbian Erotica 2012 Book Tour
The reading in December at KGB Bar was a smash. It was terrific meeting everyone, I aced the reading part, and autographing copies of the book was one of the most wonderful experiences of my life. More readings are planned for NYC this year, and I plan to be at all of them–might as well enjoy this part of being a writer while it’s [...]
New Years Eve Ramblings
I have grown tired of plugging and unplugging the lights on my tree, tired of the red and green. Christmas hit fast and hard this year, and I am over it. But today is New Year’s Eve, my favorite holiday, and the brand new year starts tomorrow, signaling not only new beginnings but an excuse get rid of the tree. It makes sense to celebr [...]
Writing Erotica
The first erotica I ever read was by Anaïs Nin. The writing was so beautiful that somehow it added to the kink factor, and there are images I remember still, thirty years later, as my erotic story “50s Waitress” is published in Cleis Press’ Best Lesbian Erotica 2012.
I’ve kept a diary for more than thirty years. I wrote down every book I read [...]
Holiday. Celebrate.
I was raised on Santa-full, God-less Christmases. I was expected to sing carols, but I was not asked to Believe. So it’s understandable that I don’t think there’s an all-powerful being to celebrate. But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the holiday season. I like parties and bright lights and shiny decorations. The feeling of community, knowing [...]
Cracked-Out Starbucks Whore
My significant other purchased our first bag of Starbucks Christmas Blend 2011 this week, explaining to the barista: “I better pick this up for my girlfriend now—she’s a cracked-out Starbucks whore.” She told me this last night, while I was performing a hyper little dance in the kitchen with the shiny red, half-empty bag. I laughed, giddy w [...]
NYC Subway Rant Number One
There’s a lot to hate about the New York City subway system. I’m focusing my hatred on two specific things today, so sit back and enjoy the rant!
There’s one thing I hate right now more than anything else about the subways. It’s not that the stations are coated with dried urine, or that people don’t stick to the right side of the stairs. It’s [...]
I write
I’m a writer. I turn my thoughts into other people’s thoughts, my feelings into other people’s feelings. I write about things I hope will and will not happen to me. About things that have happened, or didn’t. Mix the right things together and fiction comes out, the characters live, I write down what happens next and make it read pretty.
Writi [...]
I don’t lie but my imaginary friend d...
The other night Ted was jabbering on and on about some ridiculously unlikely experience he was claiming to have had. And then and then and then. Finally I looked up from the computer long enough to say “Those are all lies. Just bunny-flavored lies!” He didn’t deny it.
Ted tells stories. Makes them up on the spot. I think he has the same role [...]
