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13 June 2011
I'm thrilled to announce that Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House is now available in paperback. You can get it here and at any major bookseller. It's also available in Kindle edition.
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Available in hardcover, paperback & eBook From her mother's decorating manias to her own "hidden room" dreams, Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that only a house can make you whole. Read more... |
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Meghan's L.A. Times Column
Friday, 01 July 2011
I found a pale blue softback copy of an "uncorrected proof" of your book, "Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House," on a bench in a small park near my home on Capitol Hill. Was it left by you, an editor, a book reviewer? Tucked between pages 100 and 101 was a business card from Hill's Kitchen, a culinary shop on the Hill. But the shop owner( who also leaves near the park) knew nothing about a missing advance copy of your book, though she added that it sounded very interesting. The mystery remains.
Monday, 08 August 2011
I am hard at work on chapter 4 of a book about, you guessed it, Being Home.I would like to connect with you about my project, and ask permission to quote the last paragraph of your book in my introduction. It captures perfectly the question my writing hopes to answer.
I have been sending out query letters to agents and had a few nibbles and sent some proposals but am still hunting. I hope to hear from you or your agent about how best to proceed.
Regards,
Rebecca Ross
The Composed Domain
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
When I left NYC in 1991--after nearly 20 years in Morningside Heights, I went out west for awhile and experienced the same sense of big sky and the fear of God.
If you want to understand that passage out of NYC a bit better--reread Moby Dick by Herman Mellville.
What you'll see is that there is a bit of a curse implicit in and about that passage out of Manhattan.(Melville himself is no angel.)
I'm not particularly articulate. So it took me 20 years to assemble a poem I overlaid onto Selah's Draw Me Lord that negotiates its way around the curse. You can listen to it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHXEfNxO83w&noredirect=1