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 [...]
There Once Was A 99¢ Store
There once was a 99¢ store on 14th Street just west of 6th Avenue. They sold household items, school supplies, snacks and plastic toys, just like every other 99¢ store in New York City. It was a cavernous space, studded with heavy white wood bins filled with travel size shampoos, 3-packs of gym socks, and used VHS tapes. These were the days b [...]
NYC Subway Rant Number Two: A/C and T...
Welcome to my rant.
RANT: There IS Such A Thing As Too Much Air Conditioning
As an innocent victim of menopause, I am not one to take air conditioning for granted. Especially not as someone who rode the New York City subways back when A/C was hit and miss and generally miss. But this summer it’s something altogether different and more [...]
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 [...]
Isidore Block and Other Strangers
Millions of people live in New York City. Millions of people but you don’t see them all. Hundreds of neighbors in your two block radius but even how many of them would you recognize out of context? We remember the people with whom we interact, like the old lady who makes us coffee every morning on our way to work, and we don’t interact with s [...]
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; [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Prize-Winning Flash Fiction!
I’m thrilled to announce that my flash piece “Lost and Found in New York” won second prize in the most recent Scribophile writing challenge! It’s my first official piece of flash fiction at 991 words, and my first foray into third person objective, so I’m particularly pleased to receive a prize for it. En [...]
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 [...]
