Return of the Smoking Diary: Rain Sounds, Tom Wolfe, and Tips on Book Writing

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Return of the Smoking Diary: Rain Sounds, Tom Wolfe, and Tips on Book Writing

... from a woman who is four (?) years late on her deadline. A morning ramble that includes Eminem, Pizza Hut, frogs in mating season, moms who smoke, and a hot take on The Patriarchy.

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

May 05, 2024

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by Sarah Hepola

Tom Wolfe, 88, 'New Journalist' With Electric Style and Acid Pen, Dies - The New York Times — The Man in Full

It’s 2:39am on Sunday, and your narrator is sheltering on a smoking couch in the midst of an intense rainstorm. She just had a dream she was dating Eminem, but only between way stations at a crowded conference — riddle me that one, Freud. Ride the wave of this stream-of-consciousness as we ponder the philosophical meaning of rain, the beauty of shitty delivery pizza, the fear of turning 50, what we would tell our children about cigarettes if we had kids, why it took four extra years to write a book that was sold waaaaay back in 2018, the value of making informed-but-bad decisions, Tom Wolfe’s brilliant description of a hangover, social status as a lens to understand human behavior, why we’re all gonna die (but not today, fingers crossed), and more.