Pagan Kennedy wrote a funny, smart essay about her experience with
MySpace for the
New York Times Book Review. She quoted me. I got an entire paragraph.
More than a
Times mention, what I loved was getting a MySpace message from Pagan Kennedy.
Way back, when I was one of those college graduates, an English major living in San Francisco (there were a lot of us), I went to see Pagan read. It was at the
BookSmith on Haight St, down the street from my apartment (one of the best I've ever had, across the street from Buena Vista Park, all by myself, a big bay window.) Pagan exemplified the kind of young woman writer I wanted to be
.
More than a decade later, a published author in my own right, I found my signed copies of
'Zine and
Stripping on my crowded bookshelf -- in Astoria, New York. Those books have traveled far.