Monthly Archives: March 2016

Heart of Glass, the Book Party!

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Last Saturday night, my great friend Sally opened her beautiful house to host a Heart of Glass book party. My lovely daughter, Grace, helped out by selling books from Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena. Another friend, Christine Moore, catered the event from her restaurant, Little Flower Cafe. Wine and hors d’oeuvres were served and my husband made a short, eloquent speech, pointing out that I have now written two books! We all had a marvelous time. It’s important to celebrate – and that’s what we did.

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What a Week!!

HeartOfGlassPeople 600dpi 001 (2)This week been a whirlwind and a mad dash to the finish line. HEART OF GLASS came out this past Tuesday (March 15th, that’s right, the Ides of March) and that same day I found out it would be reviewed in People magazine, the very next day, Wednesday March 16th . So what started out as a quiet, almost no-news day, was transformed into a day to jump up and down with joy. I was so thrilled that I sent flowers to the reviewer! I’m happy the book is out in the world and I am curious to see what happens next. Now I can relax. A little bit.

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HEART of GLASS playlist!

With only one day to the publication of Heart of Glass, I’m excited to put up the playlist for the book. David Bowie is here of course, and up first. Blondie, Madness, Grace Jones and the Clash are in the mix as well as Nenah Cherry and the Psychedelic Furs. Iggy Pop, who has a cameo in Heart of Glass, is second to last, singing a gorgeous David Bowie song, Tonight. And finally, another artist we lost in 2013, Lou Reed performs a great song about New York back in the day. Enjoy!

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Feminine in a butch sort of way …

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That was how my friend Pete once described my cross-dressing David Bowie phase, living in New York in the early 80’s. I had two suits, shirts and ties, and an assortment of jackets like this one which was given to me by a guy who asked me out for coffee after we’d just watched The Man Who Fell To Earth at Cinema Village on East 12th Street. I no longer have the jacket, but amazingly the movie theater is still there. I tried on many looks in my twenties, this is just one. Sometimes, I miss this girl.

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